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368 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780099748311
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: 21 August 1997
Description
Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman. Reuben Hersh argues the contrary, that mathematics must be understood as a human activity, a social phenomenon, part of human culture, historically evolved, and...
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368 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780099748311
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: 21 August 1997
Description
Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman. Reuben Hersh argues the contrary, that mathematics must be understood as a human activity, a social phenomenon, part of human culture, historically evolved, and...