Posted: September 8th, 2008, 12:28am CEST by Soul
Reuben Hersh - What Is Mathematics, Really?
INFO : 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 intelligible only in a social context. Hersh pulls the screen back to reveal [...]