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Serious Fun with Flexagons
A flexagon is a motion structure that has the appearance of a ring of hinged polygons. It can be flexed to display different pairs of faces, usually in cyclic order. Flexagons can be appreciated as toys or puzzles, as a recreational mathematics topic, and as the subject of serious mathematical study. Workable paper models... »
The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics
Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematicalcalculations is far from complete. But in recent years there have been manyexciting scientific discoveries, some aided by new imaging techniques–whichallow us for the first time to watch the living mind at work–and others byingenious experiments conducted by researchers all over the world. There arestill perplexing... »
The Architecture of Modern Mathematics
This edited volume, aimed at both students and researchers in philosophy, mathematics and history of science, highlights leading developments in the overlapping areas of philosophy and the history of modern mathematics. It is a coherent, wide ranging account of how a number of topics in the philosophy of mathematics must be reconsidered in the... »
Classical Algebra: Its Nature, Origins, and Uses
This insightful book combines the history, pedagogy, and popularization of algebra to present a unified discussion of the subject. Classical Algebra provides a complete and contemporary perspective on classical polynomial algebra through the exploration of how it was developed and how it exists today. With a focus on prominent areas such as the numerical solutions... »
The Mathematician’s Brain
The Mathematician’s Brain poses a provocative question about the world’s most brilliant yet eccentric mathematical minds: were they brilliant because of their eccentricities or in spite of them? In this thought-provoking and entertaining book, David Ruelle, the well-known mathematical physicist who helped create chaos theory, gives us a rare insider’s account of the celebrated... »