Mathematics and History
- Kind
- Journal Article
- Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Mathematical Intelligencer
- Volume / pages
- 4, No. 4, 10
- Retrieved
- Sep 6, 2011
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Mathematics as Exploration
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.