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Publication details

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Place: Basel

Year: 2017

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319612300

Full citation:

Bharath Sriraman (ed), Humanizing mathematics and its philosophy, Basel, Birkhäuser, 2017

Humanizing mathematics and its philosophy

Contents

Review of how humans learn to think mathematically

exploring the three worlds of mathematics

Reuben Hersh

39-44

Cognitive networks

brains, internet, and civilizations

Dmitrii Manin, Yuri I. Manin

85-96

The "artificial mathematician" objection

exploring the (im)possibility of automating mathematical understanding

Sven Delarivière, Bart Van Kerkhove

173-198

The philosophy of Reuben Hersh

a nontechnical assessment

William Labov

351-354