What is mathematics, really? / Reuben Hersh.

Virtually all philosophers treat mathematics as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman. In What Is Mathematics, Really? renowned mathematician Reuben Hersh argues the contrary. In a subversive attack on traditional philosophies of mathematics, most notably Platonism and formalism, he shows that ma...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author:	Hersh, Reuben, 1927-2020
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Subjects:	Mathematics > Philosophy.