Kan De Geschiedenis Ons Iets Leren Over De Structuur Van Wiskundig Denken? [Can History Teach Us Somethign About the Structure of Mathematical Thinking?]

About Kan De Geschiedenis Ons Iets Leren Over De Structuur Van Wiskundig Denken? [Can History Teach Us Somethign About the Structure of Mathematical Thinking?]

Authors Kuyk, Willem
Date 1980
Publication Wiskunde en Onderwijs
Vol / Pages Vol. 24; 27 pp. 415-427; 357-374

Type: Journal Article

Tags: abstract mathematics, Artificial intelligence, complementarity, history of mathematics, intuition, Kuhn, NotAvail, philosophy of mathematics

Abstract

Presents a cusp model incorporating intuition and the dichotomies of the analytic/synthetic, abstract/concrete, and symbolic/model-theoretic. Relates it to Kuhnian revolutions in mathematics, to artificial intelligence, and to his philosophy of complementarity in mathematics. [GBC]