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In his book The Value of Science, Poincaré criticizes a certain view of the growth of mathematical knowledge:
The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new ones, but to the continuous evolution of zoological types which develop ceaselessly and end by becoming unrecognizable to the common sight, but where an expert eye finds always traces of the prior work of the centuries past (Poincaré 1958, 14).
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Cellucci, C. (2000). The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge: An Open World View. In: Grosholz, E., Breger, H. (eds) The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge. Synthese Library, vol 289. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9558-2_12
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