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		<title>Serious Fun with Flexagons</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 of flexagons are easy to make and entertaining to manipulate. The mathematics of flexagons is complex, and how a flexagon works is not immediately obvious on examination of a paper model. Recent geometric analysis, included in the book, has improved theoretical understanding of flexagons, especially relationships between different types. This profusely illustrated book is arranged in a logical order appropriate for a textbook on the geometry of flexagons. It is written so that it can be enjoyed at both the recreational mathematics level, and at the serious mathematics level. The only prerequisite is some knowledge of elementary geometry, including properties of polygons. A feature of the book is a compendium of over 100 nets for making paper models of some of the more interesting flexagons, chosen to complement the text. These are accurately drawn and reproduced at half full size. Many of the nets have not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8211;whichallow us for the first time to watch the living mind at work&#8211;and others byingenious experiments conducted by researchers all over the world. There arestill perplexing mysteries&#8211;how, for instance, do idiot savants perform almostmiraculous mathematical feats?&#8211;but the picture is growing steadily clearer. InThe Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers general readers a first look at theserecent stunning discoveries, in an enlightening exploration of the mathematicalmind.Dehaene, a mathematician turned cognitive neuropsychologist, begins withthe eye-opening discovery that animals&#8211;including rats, pigeons, raccoons, andchimpanzees&#8211;can perform simple mathematical calculations, and he describesingenious experiments that show that human infants also have a rudimentarynumber sense (American scientist Karen Wynn, for instance, using just a fewMickey Mouse toys and a small puppet theater, proved that five-month-old infantsalready have the ability to add and subtract). Further, Dehaene suggests thatthis rudimentary number sense is as basic to the way the brain understands theworld as our perception of color or of objects in space, and, like these otherabilities, our number sense is wired into the brain. But how then did the brainleap from this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Architecture of Modern Mathematics</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 light of the latest historical research and how a number of historical accounts can be deepened by embracing philosophical questions.]]></description>
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		<title>Classical Algebra: Its Nature, Origins, and Uses</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 of equations, the systematic study of equations, and Galois theory, this book facilitates a thorough understanding of algebra and illustrates how the concepts of modern algebra originally developed from classical algebraic precursors. This book successfully ties together the disconnect between classical and modern algebraand provides readers with answers to many fascinating questions that typically go unexamined, including: What is algebra about? How did it arise? What uses does it have? How did it develop? What problems and issues have occurred in its history? How were these problems and issues resolved? The author answers these questions and more, shedding light on a rich history of the subject—from ancient and medieval times to the present. Structured as eleven &#8220;lessons&#8221; that are intended to give the reader further insight on classical algebra, each chapter contains thought-provoking problems and stimulating questions, for which complete answers are provided in an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mathematician&#8217;s Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mathematician&#8217;s Brain poses a provocative question about the world&#8217;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&#8217;s account of the celebrated mathematicians he has known-their quirks, oddities, personal tragedies, bad behavior, descents into madness, tragic ends, and the sublime, inexpressible beauty of their most breathtaking mathematical discoveries. Consider the case of British mathematician Alan Turing. Credited with cracking the German Enigma code during World War II and conceiving of the modern computer, he was convicted of &#8220;gross indecency&#8221; for a homosexual affair and died in 1954 after eating a cyanide-laced apple&#8211;his death was ruled a suicide, though rumors of assassination still linger. Ruelle holds nothing back in his revealing and deeply personal reflections on Turing and other fellow mathematicians, including Alexander Grothendieck, René Thom, Bernhard Riemann, and Felix Klein. But this book is more than a mathematical tell-all. Each chapter examines an important mathematical idea and the visionary minds behind it. Ruelle meaningfully explores the philosophical issues raised by each, offering insights into the truly unique and [...]]]></description>
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