Mathematics versus philosophy, then and now
Opinionated History of Mathematics
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Contextualism Versus Universalism
The great minds of ancient and modern times think alike, he says. This is why Copernicus and Kepler had such unshakable confidence that mathematicians would agree with them. The idea that modern science was born in a Galilean revolution based on seeing history as soaked in cultural relativism has no place in the world of mathematics, writes David Frum.
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