Why proof? A historian's perspective

DOI10.1007/978-94-007-2129-6_6MaRDI QIDQ2915845zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Judith V. Grabiner

Publication date 19 September 2012

Published in New ICMI Study Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2129-6_6

zbMATH Keywords

key historical examplesmathematical proofsphilosophical influencesstandards of proofsunderstanding of logic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics and mathematicians (01A99) History in mathematics education (97A30) Reasoning and proving in the mathematics classroom (97E50)

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