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I can also recommend Proofs and Refutations by Imre Lakatos. It's an unusually easy read for a philosophy book (fewer than 200 pages and written as a sort of S
by panic 8y ago
I can also recommend Proofs and Refutations by Imre Lakatos. It's an unusually easy read for a philosophy book (fewer than 200 pages and written as a sort of Socratic dialogue) and engages with some very deep problems related to the nature of mathematical proofs.