On the Nature of Mathematical Entities

Reuben Hersh ()
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Reuben Hersh: The University of New Mexico, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

A chapter in Humanizing Mathematics and its Philosophy, 2017, pp 361-363 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In What is Mathematics, Really? I argued, following Leslie White, that mathematical entities are real objects and that they are part of culture, i.e., sociocultural entities and intersubjective.

Keywords: Mathematical Entities; White Lesions; Established Mathematics; Stanislas Dehaene; Brain Trace (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-61231-7_27

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