Ahmes' Legacy Puzzles and the Mathematical Mind /

• Main Author: Danesi, Marcel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Mathematics in Mind,
• Subjects: Neural networks (Computer science) .; Neurosciences.; Psychology.; Mathematics.; History.; Anthropology.; Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks.; History of Psychology.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

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 pro...

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.