Devlin, Keith, Mathematics: The Science of Patterns: The Search for Order in Life, Mind and the Universe Scientific American Paperback Library 1996,• "The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism" | Both senses can be found in Plato |
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[I]t is first necessary to ask what is meant by mathematics in general | 16: "What do I mean by abstractness? 16: "By encryptedness, I mean that one symbol can stand for a number of different operations or ideas, just as the multiplication sign symbolizes repeated addition |
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"Images of Mathematics Held by University Teachers of Mathematical Sciences" | "The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil |
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