Mathematics has a front and a back

Synthese 88 (2):127 - 133 (1991)
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It is explained that, in the sense of the sociologist Erving Goffman, mathematics has a front and a back. Four pervasive myths about mathematics are stated. Acceptance of these myths is related to whether one is located in the front or the back.

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The mathematical experience.Philip J. Davis - 1981 - Boston: Birkhäuser. Edited by Reuben Hersh & Elena Marchisotto.

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