Download or read book Mathematics Under the Microscope written by Alexandre Borovik and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's goal is to start a dialogue between mathematicians and cognitive scientists. He discusses, from a working mathematician's point of view, the mystery of mathematical intuition: why are certain mathematical concepts more intuitive than others? To what extent does the "small scale" structure of mathematical concepts and algorithms reflect the workings of the human brain? What are the "elementary particles" of mathematics that build up the mathematical universe? The book is saturated with amusing examples from a wide range of disciplines-from turbulence to error-correcting codes to lo.