Mancosu P., Jorgensen K.F., Pedersen S.A. (eds.) Visualization, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics

Springer, 2005. - 314 pages. ISBN: 1402033346This book contains groundbreaking contributions to the philosophical analysis of mathematical practice. Several philosophers of mathematics have recently called for an approach to philosophy of mathematics that pays more attention to mathematical practice. Questions concerning concept-formation, understanding, heuristics, changes in style of reasoning, the role of analogies and diagrams, etc. have become the subject of intense interest.