mathematics

innovator in the field of

philosophy of mathematics

occupation / innovator as

scientist

nationality

American

mathematician

is a social construction, a cultural product, fallible like any other branch of knowledge. Its justification rests on its quasi-empirical basis.

Ernest, is that 'the social constructiist thesis is that mathematics is a social construction, a cultural product, fallible like any other branch of knowledge' and that 'the justification of mathematical knowledge rests on its quasi-empirical basis.' (Paul Ernest 1990, 3)

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