Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent - Alberto A. Martinez - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691133911 - January 5, 2014
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Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent

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A student in class asks the math teacher: "Shouldn't minus times minus make minus?" Teachers soon convince most students that it does not. Yet the innocent question brings with it a germ of mathematical creativity. What happens if we encourage that thought, odd and ungrounded though it may seem? Few books in the field of mathematics encourage such


288 pages, black & white illustrations

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Released January 5, 2014
ISBN13 9780691133911
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 288
Dimensions 158 × 233 × 15 mm   ·   436 g
Language English  

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