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Like artists who fail to give an accurate description of how they work, like scientists who believe in unrealistic philosophies of science, mathematicians subscribe to a concept of mathematical truth that runs contrary to the truth.
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Norman Levinson, On the Elementary Proof of the Prime Number Theorem, Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, (2) 15, 1966-1967, 141–146.
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Rota, GC. (1997). The Phenomenology of Mathematical Truth. In: Palombi, F. (eds) Indiscrete Thoughts. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4781-0_9
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