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The vicissitudes of mathematical reason in the 20th century

Paolo Mancosu: The adventure of reason: Interplay between philosophy of mathematics and mathematical logic, 1900–1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, 618pp, $81.52 HB

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Mormann, T. The vicissitudes of mathematical reason in the 20th century. Metascience 21, 295–300 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9556-y

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