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“I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.” If Potter Stewart hadn’t coined this phrase, mathematicians would have. Trying to define “mathematical maturity” is about as hopeless a task as defining obscenity, or, for that matter, justice or love. Nevertheless, since that is our task, let us begin.
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Steen, L.A. (1983). Developing Mathematical Maturity. In: Ralston, A., Young, G.S. (eds) The Future of College Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5510-9_10
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