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“A world of ideas exists, created by human beings, existing in their shared consciousness. These ideas have properties which are objectively theirs, in the same sense that material objects have their own properties. The construction of proof and counterexample is the method of discovering the properties of these ideas. This is the branch of knowledge which we call mathematics.”
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“The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about?... Controversies about…teaching cannot be resolved without confronting problems about the nature of mathematics.”
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