Negative Math

Alberto A. Martinez

Princeton University Press, 2014

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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

ISBN-13
9780691133911
ISBN-10
0691133913
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2014
Publication date
2014-01-05
Pages
288
Dimensions
233x158x15
Weight
436