The Varieties of Mathematical Explanation

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In Paolo Mancosu, Klaus Frovin Jørgensen & S. A. Pedersen (eds.), Visualization, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics. Springer. pp. 215-250 (2005)
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