Negative Math
Alberto A. Martinez
Princeton University Press, 2014
33,75 €On orderDelivery: 2-3 weeks
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
- ISBN-13
- 9780691133911
- ISBN-10
- 0691133913
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 2014
- Publication date
- 2014-01-05
- Pages
- 288
- Dimensions
- 233x158x15
- Weight
- 436