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It is argued that the exchange between the formal and the social uses of mathematics has often been mediated by recreational mathematics. Many examples are offered, taken by ancient and modern history.
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Rossi, P. (2018). Mathematics as a Social Language: A (Past and Present) Phenomenology. In: Emmer, M., Abate, M. (eds) Imagine Math 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93949-0_13
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