Volume
4
Issue
2
Abstract
This paper begins with a review of the collection 18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics edited by Hersh (2006). Inspired especially by the contribution by Thurston to that collection, I then go on to discuss, by means of a couple of thought experiments involving computer "oracles", the nature of mathematics as a human activity, hopefully providing some balance to the simplified view (sometimes held by research mathematicians such as myself) of the discipline as purely a quest for objective truth.
First Page
140
Last Page
153
Recommended Citation
Häggström, Olle
(2007)
"Objective Truth versus Human Understanding in Mathematics and in Chess,"
The Mathematics Enthusiast: Vol. 4
:
No.
2
, Article 2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1067
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/tme/vol4/iss2/2
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.54870/1551-3440.1067
