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Title: The Mathematical Experience
Author(s): Phillip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh
Pages: 440
Publisher: Houghton
Publication date: 1982
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN-10: 039532131X
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Description: Amazon.com Review We tend to think of mathematics as uniquely rigorous, and of mathematicians as supremely smart. In his introduction to The Mathematical Experience, Gian-Carlo Rota notes that instead, "a mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof ... is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks." Philip Davis and Reuben Hersh discuss everything from the nature of proof to the Euclid myth, and mathematical aesthetics to non-Cantorian set theory. They make a convincing case for the idea that mathematics is not about eternal reality, but comprises "true facts about imaginary objects" and belongs among the human sciences. Review "A true gem, one of the masterpieces of our age." -- -- AMERICAN MONTHLY "A true gem, one of the masterpieces of our age." -- Review --This text refers to the Paperback edition. orange-arrow._V42752349_.gif See all Editorial Reviews Product Details * Paperback: 440 pages * Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company (May 1982) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 039532131X * ISBN-13: 978-0395321317

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