Visualization, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mancosu, Paolo (Editor), Jørgensen, Klaus Frovin (Editor), Pedersen, Stig Andur (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 327
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Philosophy and science.; Visualization.; History.; Mathematical logic.; Mathematics, general.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.; Philosophy of Science.

This book contains groundbreaking contributions to the philosophical analysis of mathematical practice. Several philosophers of mathematics have recently called for an approach to philosophy of mathematics that pays more attention to mathematical practice. Questions concerning concept-formation, und...