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 | The Mathematical Experience (Reprint Edition) by Reuben Hersh, Phillip J. Davis Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-395-92968-7 / 0395929687 ISBN-13: 978-0-395-92968-1 / 9780395929681 We tend to think of mathematics as uniquely rigorous, and of mathematicians as supremely smart. In his introduction to The Mathematical Experience, Gian-Carlo Rota notes that instead, "a mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof .. | |