| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Mathematical recreations and abstract games: 1. Recreations from Euler to Lucas; 2. Four abstract games; 3. Mathematics and games: mysterious connections; 4. Why chess is not mathematics; 5. Proving versus checking; Part II. Mathematics: game-like, scientific and perceptual: 6. Game-like mathematics; 7. Euclid and the rules of his geometrical game; 8. New concepts and new objects; 9. Convergent and divergent series; 10. Mathematics becomes game-like; 11. Maths as science; 12. Numbers and sequences; 13. Computers and mathematics; 14. Mathematics and the sciences; 15. Minimum paths from Heron to Feynmann; 16. The foundations: perception, imagination and insight; 17. Structure; 18. Hidden structure, common structure; 19. Mathematics and beauty; 20. Origins: formality in the everyday world; Bibliography; Index. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Games -- Mathematical models.
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Mathematical recreations.
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Mathematics -- Psychological aspects.
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| Added Author |
Ebooks Corporation
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| Related To |
Original 9781107024601 1107024609 9781107690912 1107690919 (DLC) 2012024343 |
| ISBN |
1139552414 (electronic bk.) |
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9781139552417 (electronic bk.) |
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9781107024601 (hardback) |
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1107024609 (hardback) |
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9781107690912 (pbk.) |
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1107690919 (pbk.) |
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