Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
1983
Department
Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science
Keywords
book review, Mathematics, loss, certainty, Morris Kline
Abstract
Morris Kline was a contentious mathematician and author, documenting (as he saw it) both the deficiencies of mid-twentieth-century reformist trends in mathematics education and formalist views of the foundations (and practice) of mathematics. This brief introduction to a discussion of Kline's 1980 book and its mixed reception by the mathematics community provides a context for assessing his ideas as part of his overall views on the nature of mathematics.
Source Publication Title
ACMS Conference Proceedings
First Page
119
Recommended Citation
Jongsma, C. (1983). Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (Book Review). ACMS Conference Proceedings, 119. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/faculty_work/1537
