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Three shifts can be detected over time in the understanding of mathematics itself. One is a shift from completeness to incompleteness, another from certainty to conjecture, and a third from absolutism to relativity.
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Leone Burton
Born:
1936
Died:
2007
(aged 71)
Bio:
Leone Minna Burton was a professor of education in mathematics and science at the University of Birmingham.
Known for:
Who Counts?: Assessing Mathematics in Europe (1994)
Thinking Mathematically
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