Author:
Wells, D. G. (David G.)
Imprint:Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Descriptionx, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:I. Mathematical recreations and abstract games -- Recreations from Euler to Lucas --Four abstract games --Mathematics and games: mysterious connections -- Why chess is not mathematics -- Proving versus checking -- II. Mathematics: game-like, scientific and perceptual -- Game-like mathematics -- Euclid and the rules of his geometrical game -- New concepts and new objects -- Convergent and divergent series -- Mathematics becomes game-like -- Mathematics as science -- Numbers and sequences -- Computers and mathematics -- Mathematics and the sciences -- Minimum paths: elegant simplicity -- The foundations: perception, imagination and insight -- Structure -- Hidden structure, common structure -- Mathematics and beauty -- 0. Origins: formality in the everyday world.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-242) and index.
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