[sci.logic] How does math get done, anyway.

steve@hubcap.clemson.edu ("Steve" Stevenson) (03/05/91)

Jon Barwise's column in the January issue of the Notices of the AMS has a
provocative article by de Bruijn on ``justification'' programs rather than
theorem provers. That sets off a line of thinking about how mathematicians
actually work (as he pointed) versus how we think mathematicians work.
I remember that Suppe's *Intro to Logic* has a chapter on the mechanics
of setting things up [Chapter 3, I think. He talks about pre-theoretical
terms, etc.] My question: are there other well laid out discussions of
the ``idomatic'' and ``pragmatics'' of mathematical development?
 
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