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I should like to talk about certain changes that are coming in what might be called the ‘philosophy of mathematics’. Part of these changes is due to technology and part simply due to a perception that the classical philosophies do not provide an adequate description of how mathematics is done by those who do it.
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Davis, P. (1986). The Nature of Proof. In: Carss, M. (eds) Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on Mathematical Education. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4238-1_31
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