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The Mathematical Experience

It focuses on the proof, without going fully into the rigorous how-to details, gives examples of some highly interesting and famous proofs, as well as the outstanding problems of mathematics (the Riemann hypothesis, etc.), and goes on to speculate on what a proof really means, in relationship to actual truth.


Flammarion engraving

The Flammarion engraving was used as an illustration in C. G. Jung's Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (1959), and in The Mathematical Experience (1981) by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh.


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