Negative Math How Mathematical Rules Can by Alberto A. Martínez PAPERBACK

Negative Math How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent\nby Alberto A. Mart\u00EDnez\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Alberto A. Mart\u00EDnez\nTitle: Negative Math How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Algebra\nPublisher: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691133911\nISBN-10: 0691133913\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nA 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\n\nA student in class asks the math teacher: \""Shouldn't.