A Mathematician Reflects on the Useful and Reliable Illusion of Reality in Mathematics.

Recent years have seen a growing acknowledgement within the mathematical community that mathematics is cognitively/socially constructed. Yet to anyone doing mathematics, it seems totally objective. The sensation in pursuing mathematical research is of discovering prior (eternal) truths about an exte...

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Published in:Erkenntnis Vol. 68; no. 3; pp. 359 - 380
Main Author: Devlin, Keith
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature May2008
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