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How mathematicians think: Using ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox to create mathematics

Byers, W. (2007). How mathematicians think: Using ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox to create mathematics. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. Reviewed by Ernest Rossi, Ph.D., Rossi Foundation For Psychosocial Genomic Research and The New Neuroscience School of Therapeutic Hypnosis and Psychotherapy.

If we can all agree that dissociation is a key concept of therapeutic hypnosis then we should be eager read this book by William Byers. Byers is a Professor of Mathematics at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Contrary to all you may have been taught about mathematics as the embodiment of logic, rationality, and truth, Byers believes that the history of mathematics provides ...

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