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...
| Published in: | Erkenntnis Vol. 68; no. 3; pp. 359 - 380 |
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Springer Nature
May2008
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