Humanizing mathematics and its philosophy : essays celebrating the 90th birthday of Reuben Hersh /: essays celebrating the 90th birthday of Reuben Hersh. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bharath Sriraman, editor.
• Editors: Sriraman, Bharath
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Birkhäuser
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 510.1; Mathematics; Mathematics -- Philosophy; MATHEMATICS / Essays; MATHEMATICS / Pre-Calculus; MATHEMATICS / Reference; MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy; Mathematics -- Philosophy; Mathematics -- Applied; Maths for scientists; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319612317
• Related ISBNs: 331961231X; 9783319612300; 3319612301
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