Overview: Presents an interesting and fruitful dialogue among four international experts: a mathematician, a Fields medalist, a historian of science, and a philosopher.Leads the reader to reflect on mathematica.This book challenges the views put forward by Pierre Cartier, one of the anchors of the famous Bourbaki group, and Cédric Villani, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who received the Fields Medal in 2010. Jean Dhombres, mathematician and science historian, and Gerhard Heinzmann, philosopher of science and also a specialist in mathematics engage in a fruitful dia
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