First empirical evidence for the use of beauty as truth in mathematical intuition reported. French mathematician Jacques Hadamard wrote in 1954 in his famous book “The Psychology of Invention in the ...
A new study introduces choice engineering—a powerful new way to guide decisions using math instead of guesswork. By applying carefully designed mathematical models, researchers found they could ...
What is perception doing in mathematical reasoning? To address this question, I discuss the role of perception in geometric reasoning. Perception of the shape properties of concrete diagrams provides, ...
La qualité essentielle d'un mathématicien est l'imagination; la logique ne sert qu'à mettre les démonstrations sous une forme irréfutable, elle est incapable de les suggérer. L'imagination se fonde ...