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The mathematician's mind : the psychology of invention in the mathematical field

Author: Jacques Hadamard
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996.
Series: Princeton science library.
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Explores the complex problem of mental life. This book argues that the roots of creativity for lie not in consciousness, but in the long unconscious work of incubation, and in the unconscious  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jacques Hadamard
ISBN: 0691029318 9780691029313
OCLC Number: 35209279
Notes: Originally published: An essay on the psychology of invention in the mathematical field. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1945.
Description: xix, 143 pages ; 21 cm.
Contents: General views and inquiries --
Discussions on unconsciousness --
The unconscious and discovery --
The preparation stage. Logic and chance --
The later conscious work --
Discovery as a synthesis. The help of signs --
Different kinds of mathematical minds --
Paradoxical cases of intuition --
The general direction of research.
Series Title: Princeton science library.
Other Titles: Essay on the psychology of invention in the mathematical field
Psychology of invention in the mathematical field
Responsibility: Jacques Hadamard.
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