Humanizing Mathematics and its Philosophy Essays Celebrating the 90th Birthday of Reuben Hersh /
This Festschrift contains numerous colorful and eclectic essays from well-known mathematicians, philosophers, logicians, and linguists celebrating the 90th birthday of Reuben Hersh. The essays offer, in part, attempts to answer the following questions set forth by Reuben himself as a focus for this...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser,
2017.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- An Interview with Reuben Hersh
- Nine decades: A photographic passage
- Pluralism as modeling and as Confusion
- “Now” has an infinitesimal positive duration
- Review of How Humans Learn to Think Mathematically: Exploring the three worlds of mathematics.
- Can You Say What Mathematics Is?
- The Exact Sciences and Non-Euclidean Logic
- XENOMATH!
- Cognitive Networks: Brains, Internet and Civilizations
- Reuben Hersh on the Growth of Mathematical Knowledge: Kant, Geometry and Number Theory
- Do Mathematicians have responsibilities?
- School Mathematics and “Real” Mathematics
- What is Mathematics and What Should it Be?
- Humanism about Abstract Objects
- Can something just happen to be true?
- The “Artificial Mathematician” Objection: Exploring the (im)possibility of automating mathematical understanding
- Wittgenstein, Mathematics and the Temporality of Technique
- Gödel’s Legacy
- Varieties of Maverick Philosophy of Mathematics
- Does reason evolve? (Does the reasoning in mathematics evolve?)
- Mathematical Theories as Models
- Mathematics for makers and mathematics for users
- Case Study in Hersh’s Philosophy: Bézout’s Theorem
- A gift to teachers
- The Philosophy of Reuben Hersh: a non-technical assessment
- Friends and Former Comrades
- On the nature of mathematical entities.
