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Mathematics, History, and Philosophy: An Introduction

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In this short introduction, the nine chapters that comprise the section “Mathematics, History and Philosophy” of the Handbook of the Mathematics of the Arts and Sciences are synthesized with the purpose of unraveling interdisciplinary, cultural, and some elusive connections between these disciplines.

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Correspondence to Bharath Sriraman .

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Sriraman, B. (2020). Mathematics, History, and Philosophy: An Introduction. In: Sriraman, B. (eds) Handbook of the Mathematics of the Arts and Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70658-0_142-1

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