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A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks. In Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh
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Philip J. Davis
Born:
January 2, 1923
Died:
March 13, 2018
(aged 95)
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