Monday, August 3, 2020

The Culture of Mathematics


"The idea that there is a single body of knowledge or a single way of thinking that we call 'mathematics' is a myth."
Maneuvering the path between Platonism and non-Platonism... Keith Devlin discusses the "culture" of mathematics (with interesting set of questions toward the end):

https://www.mathvalues.org/masterblog/of-course-2-2-4-is-cultural-that-doesnt-mean-the-sum-could-be-anything-else



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