Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent by Alberto A. Martínez

Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent

Alberto A. Martínez

288 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics informative medium-paced
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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 ...

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