Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
5-27-1983
Abstract
Morris Kline was a contentious mathematician and author, documenting (as he saw it) both the deficiencies of mid-twentieth-century reformist trends in mathematics education and formalist views of the foundations (and practice) of mathematics. This brief introduction to a discussion of Kline's 1980 book and its mixed reception by the mathematics community provides a context for assessing his ideas as part of his overall views on the nature of mathematics.
Recommended Citation
Jongsma, Calvin, "Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty" (1983). ACMS Conference Proceedings 1983. 3.
https://pillars.taylor.edu/acms-1983/3
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