Mathematical truth is socially constructed, but using rules, and it is the rules, rather than the process of social construction, which give this process its po

Mathematical truth is socially constructed, but using rules, and it is the rules, rather than the process of social construction, which give this process its power. An interesting meditation here on mathematics itself, which is also simply certain rules, and not others. Merely invoking social construction ignores this difference, which is the essential difference, between mathematics and, say, hide and go seek.