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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-07-18 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-08-21 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman. Reuben Hersh argues the contrary, that mathematics must be understood as
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Language: en
Pages: 287
Pages: 287
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-07 - Publisher: Yale University Press
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