How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics

Princeton University Press (2010)
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"--David Ruelle, author of "Chance and Chaos" "This is an important book, one that should cause an epoch-making change in the way we think about mathematics.

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