What is mathematics, really? — Scriptorium Liberum

What Is Mathematics, Really?

✍ Reuben Hersh 📂 Library 📅 1999 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman. Reuben Hersh argues the contrary, that mathematics must be understood as a human activity, a social phenomenon, part of human culture, historically evolved, and intelligible only in a social context. Hersh pulls t

What is Mathematics, Really?

📁 What is Mathematics, Really?

✍ Reuben Hersh 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Platonism is the most pervasive philosophy of mathematics. Indeed, it can be argued that an inarticulate, half-conscious Platonism is nearly universal among mathematicians. The basic idea is that mathematical entities exist outside space and time, outside thought and matter, in an abstract realm. In

What is mathematics, really

📁 What is mathematics, really

✍ Hersh R. 📂 Library 📅 1999 🏛 OUP 🌐 English

Platonism is the most pervasive philosophy of mathematics. Indeed, it can be argued that an inarticulate, half-conscious Platonism is nearly universal among mathematicians. The basic idea is that mathematical entities exist outside space and time, outside thought and matter, in an abstract realm. In

What is Mathematics, Really?

📁 What is Mathematics, Really?

✍ Hersh, Reuben 📂 Library 📅 2001;1997 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Contents; Preface: Aims and Goals; Acknowledgments; Dialogue with Laura; 1 Survey and Proposals; 2 Criteria for a Philosophy of Mathematics; 3 Myths/Mistakes/Misunderstandings; 4 Intuition/Proof/Certainty; 5 Five Classical Puzzles; 6 Mainstream Before the Crisis; 7 Mainstream Philosophy at Its Peak;

What Is Mathematics, Really?

📁 What Is Mathematics, Really?

✍ Reuben Hersh 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman. Reuben Hersh argues the contrary, that mathematics must be understood as a human activity, a social phenomenon, part of human culture, historically evolved, and intelligible only in a social context. Hersh pulls t

What is Mathematics, Really?

📁 What is Mathematics, Really?

✍ Reuben Hersh 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Platonism is the most pervasive philosophy of mathematics. Indeed, it can be argued that an inarticulate, half-conscious Platonism is nearly universal among mathematicians. The basic idea is that mathematical entities exist outside space and time, outside thought and matter, in an abstract realm. In