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  title info:
    title: Ahmes' Legacy
    sub title: Puzzles and the Mathematical Mind
  name:
    name part: Danesi, Marcel.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 164 p. 99 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book looks at classic puzzles from the perspective of their structures and what they tell us about the brain. It uses the work on the neuroscience of mathematics from Dehaene, Butterworth, Lakoff, Núñez, and many others as a lens to understand the ways in which puzzles reflect imaginative processes blended with rational ones. The book is not about recreational or puzzle-based mathematics in and of itself but rather about what the classic puzzles tell us about the mathematical imagination and its impact on the discipline. It delves into the history of classic math puzzles, deconstructing their raison d'être and describing their psychological features, so that their nature can be fleshed out in order to help understand the mathematical mind. 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. .
  table of contents: 1. Puzzles and Mathematics -- 2. An Archetype Theory of Puzzles -- 3. Puzzles and Discovery -- 4. Puzzles and Spatial Reasoning -- 5. The Mathematical Mind -- References -- Index.
  note: by Marcel Danesi.
  subject:
    topic: Neural networks (Computer science)
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
  subject:
    topic: History of Psychology
  subject:
    topic: History of Mathematical Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  classification: QA76.87
  classification: 519
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Mathematics in Mind
  identifier: 9783319932545
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93254-5
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    record creation date: 180811
    record change date: 20191024122640.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-93254-5