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    STUDIA MATHEMATICA - Issue no. 2 / 2008  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEWS: WILLIAM BYERS, HOW MATHEMATICIANS THINK USING AMBIGUITY, CONTRADICTION, AND PARADOX TO CREATE MATHEMATICS, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 415 PAGES, ISBN-13:978-0-691-12738-5..

Authors:  IOAN A. RUS.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  The book is divided into three sections: The light of ambiguity (Ambiguity in Mathematics, The Contradictory in Mathematics, Paradoxes and Mathematics: Infinity and the Real Numbers), The light as idea (The Idea as an Organizing Principle, Ideas, Logic and Paradox, Great Ideas) and The light and the eye of the beholder (The Truth of Mathematics, Conclusion: Is Mathematics Algorithmic or Creative?).  
         
     
         
         
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