What Is Mathematics, Really? by Reuben Hersh

What Is Mathematics, Really?

Reuben Hersh

368 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics philosophy science challenging informative slow-paced
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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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