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The mathematician's mind : the psychology of invention in the mathematical field / Jacques Hadamard.

By: Hadamard, Jacques, 1865-1963.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Princeton science library: Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996Description: 1 online resource (xix, 143 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780691212906; 0691212902.Other title: Psychology of invention in the mathematical field.Uniform titles: Essay on the psychology of invention in the mathematical field Subject(s): Mathematics -- Philosophy | Mathematicians -- Psychology | Math�ematiques -- Philosophie | Math�ematiciens -- Psychologie | MATHEMATICS -- History & Philosophy | Mathematicians -- Psychology | Mathematics -- Philosophy | Kreativit�at | Mathematiker | PsychologieGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mathematician's mind.DDC classification: 510/.1/9 Other classification: CC 2600 Online resources: Click here to access online
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.
Summary: Fifty years ago when Jacques Hadamard set out to explore how mathematicians invent new ideas, he considered the creative experiences of some of the greatest thinkers of his generation, such as George Polya, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Albert Einstein. It appeared that inspiration could strike anytime, particularly after an individual had worked hard on a problem for days and then turned attention to another activity. In exploring this phenomenon, Hadamard produced one of the most famous and cogent cases for the existence of unconscious mental processes in mathematical invention and other forms of creativity.
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Originally published: An essay on the psychology of invention in the mathematical field. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1945.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Fifty years ago when Jacques Hadamard set out to explore how mathematicians invent new ideas, he considered the creative experiences of some of the greatest thinkers of his generation, such as George Polya, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Albert Einstein. It appeared that inspiration could strike anytime, particularly after an individual had worked hard on a problem for days and then turned attention to another activity. In exploring this phenomenon, Hadamard produced one of the most famous and cogent cases for the existence of unconscious mental processes in mathematical invention and other forms of creativity.

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