Quote: should teach mathematics by showing the development of proof-generated concepts from naive conjectures; dispels mysticism of mathematics

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The change from the deductivist to the heuristic … need for it. Let us look at an … [p. 153] this concept is a proof-generated concept in … whether it is intuitive or not is not … never tear a proof-generated definition off from its … secondary. … [p. 154] One can easily give more examples, where … the theorem and to the proof-generated definition would …   Google-1   Google-2

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