The Dark Side of the History of Proof

Karine Chemla ()
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Karine Chemla: SPHERE (UMR7219, CNRS & Université Paris Cité)

A chapter in Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, 2024, pp 2137-2161 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the historiography of mathematics, proof and computation have regularly been perceived as opposed to each other in ways that have significantly obscured the discussion of the relationships between these two mathematical practices. This essay intends to draw on recent work in the history and the philosophy of mathematics to offer some reflections on these relationships.

Keywords: Proof; Computation; Algorithms; Cuneiform texts; The nine chapters on mathematical procedures; Liu Hui; Algebraic proof; Formal operation; Understanding; Practical certainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40846-5_81

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