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- Provides a rare look at the psychology and neuroscientific aspects of recreational mathematics and what it entails for understanding the mathematical mind
- Presents an overall picture of what pizzles mean for the origins and developments of mathematics
- Maintains a user-friendly level, while including more technical discussion of solutions in appendices for interested readers
Part of the book series: Mathematics in Mind (MATHMIN)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This volume is the first monographic treatment of the psychological nature of puzzles in mathematics. With its user-friendly technical level of discussion, it is of interest to both general readers and those who engage in the disciplines of mathematics, psychology, neuroscience, and/or anthropology. It is also ideal as a textbook source for courses in recreational mathematics, or as reference material in introductory college math courses.
Reviews
“This book, however, focuses almost exclusively on puzzles within recreational mathematics, and surveys a wide variety of them. The book’s title comes from the Ahmes Papyrus (also called the Rhind Papyrus), that contains some of the oldest known puzzles. One of the peculiarities of the problem-puzzle distinction is that is it time-dependent, because we develop new standard methods from working on particular puzzles.” (Allen Stenger, MAA Reviews, January, 25, 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Marcel Danesi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ahmes’ Legacy
Book Subtitle: Puzzles and the Mathematical Mind
Authors: Marcel Danesi
Series Title: Mathematics in Mind
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93254-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93253-8Published: 21 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06621-5Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93254-5Published: 11 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2522-5405
Series E-ISSN: 2522-5413
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 164
Number of Illustrations: 99 b/w illustrations
Topics: Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks, Neurosciences, History of Psychology, History of Mathematical Sciences, Anthropology