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 book, David Ruelle, the mathematical physicist who helped create chaos theory, gives us...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ruelle, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
Temas:
Mathematics > Philosophy.
Mathematicians > Psychology.
Mathématiques > Philosophie.
Mathématiciens > Psychologie.
Mathematicians > Psychology
Mathematics > Philosophy
Philosophie
Psychologie
Mathematiker
Denken
Genie
Mathematik
Mentalität
Psychische Störung
Wiskunde.
Wiskundigen.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Scientific Thinking
  • What Is Mathematics?
  • The Erlangen Program
  • Mathematics and Ideologies
  • The Unity of Mathematics
  • A Glimpse into Algebraic Geometry and Arithmetic
  • A Trip to Nancy with Alexander Grothendieck
  • Structures
  • The Computer and the Brain
  • Mathematical Texts
  • Honors
  • Infinity: The Smoke Screen of the Gods
  • Foundations
  • Structures and Concept Creation
  • Turing's Apple
  • Mathematical Invention: Psychology and Aesthetics
  • The Circle Theorem and an Infinite-Dimensional Labyrinth
  • Mistake!
  • The Smile of Mona Lisa
  • Tinkering and the Construction of Mathematical Theories
  • The Strategy of Mathematical Invention
  • Mathematical Physics and Emergent Behavior
  • The Beauty of Mathematics.

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