Negative Math : : How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent / / Alberto A. Martínez.
A student in class asks the math teacher: "Shouldn't minus times minus make minus?" Teachers soon convince most students that it does not. Yet the innocent question brings with it a germ of mathematical creativity. What happens if we encourage that thought, odd and ungrounded though i...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2005 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: The Problem
- Chapter 3: History: Much Ado About Less than Nothing
- Chapter 4: History: Meaningful and Meaningless Expressions
- Chapter 5: History: Making Radically New Mathematics
- Chapter 6: Math Is Rather Flexible
- Chapter 7: Making a Meaningful Math
- Notes
- Further reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index