| Description |
1 online resource (331 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Originally published: 1999. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: RECALLING; II: COUNTING; III: BALANCING; IV: NUMBERING; V: WINNING; Notes; References; Index. |
| Summary |
When Archimedes, while bathing, suddenly hit upon the principle of buoyancy, he ran wildly through the streets of Syracuse, stark naked, crying "eureka!" In The Moment of Proof, Donald Benson attempts to convey to general readers the feeling of eureka--the joy of discovery--that mathematicians feel when they first encounter an elegant proof. This is not an introduction to mathematics so much as an introduction to the pleasures of mathematical thinking. And indeed the delights of this book are many and varied. The book is packed with intriguing conundrums--Loyd's Fifteen Puzzle, the page. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Proof theory -- Popular works.
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Proof theory. |
| Genre/Form |
Popular works.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Benson, Donald C. Moment of proof. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000 9780195139198 (OCoLC)46693390 |
| ISBN |
9780198027744 (electronic book) |
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0198027745 (electronic book) |
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