We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"


In: Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh, The Mathematical Experience, Introduction (p. xviii), Birkhäuser. 1981


We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of proving theorems. Is a writer's job mainly that of writing sentences?

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of proving theorems. Is a writer's job mainly that of writing sentences?

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of proving theorems. Is a writer's job mainly that of writing sentences?

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of proving theorems. Is a writer's job mainly that of writing sentences?