Philosophia Mathematica Advance Access originally published online on April 15, 2008
Philosophia Mathematica 2009 17(1):122-123; doi:10.1093/philmat/nkn013
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YURI I. MANIN. Mathematics as Metaphor: Selected Essays of Yuri I. Manin
YURI I. MANIN. Mathematics as Metaphor: Selected Essays of Yuri I. Manin. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 2007. 978-08218-4331-4. Pp. xvii + 232.
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Part I. Mathematics as Metaphor
Mathematical knowledge: Internal, social, and cultural aspects, pp. 3–26. Commissioned for C. Bartocci and P. Odifreddi, eds, Mathematics and Culture, Vol. 2.
Mathematics as metaphor, pp. 27–32. Previously published in Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Kyoto, Japan, 1990.