Journal article
Explanation in mathematical conversations: an empirical investigation
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Analysis of online mathematics forums can help reveal how explanation is used by mathematicians; we contend that this use of explanation may help to provide an informal conceptualization of simplicity. We extracted six conjectures from recent philosophical work on the occurrence and characteristics of explanation in mathematics. We then tested these conjectures against a corpus derived from online mathematical discussions. To this end, we employed two techniques, one based on indicator terms,...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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EP/K040251/2
EP/P017320/1
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Royal Society
- Journal:
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences More from this journal
- Volume:
- 377
- Issue:
- 2140
- Article number:
- 20180159
- Publication date:
- 2019-01-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-08-22
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2962
- ISSN:
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1364-503X
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pubs:911000
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- pubs:911000
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- Deposit date:
- 2018-08-29
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- Copyright holder:
- Pease et al
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2019 The Authors. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from the Royal Society at: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2018.0159
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