Heath, Thomas Little 1981 [originally published 1921] | 16: "Focused problem solving in math and science is often more effortful than focused-mode thinking involving language and people |
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See, for example 's statement "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty | "Images of Mathematics Held by University Teachers of Mathematical Sciences" |
Lion Hunting and Other Mathematical Pursuits: A Collection of Mathematics, Verse, and Stories by the Late Ralph P.
25"Optimal Foraging Theory: A Critical Review" | |
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"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" | Shasha, Dennis Elliot; Lazere, Cathy A |
"Cyclic proofs of program termination in separation logic".
"The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil | This may be because humans haven't evolved over the millennia to manipulate mathematical ideas, which are frequently more abstractly encrypted than those of conventional language |
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Outlines of a Formalist Philosophy of Mathematics | " This question was inspired by Eugene Wigner's paper "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" |