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In his paper ‘History of Mathematics: Why and How’ for the 1978 International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki, André Weil makes the following statement:
»Some universities have established chairs for ‘the history and philosophy of mathematics’; it is hard for me to imagine what those two subjects can have in common.» (Weil, 1980, p. 230.)
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Niiniluoto, I. (1984). The Growth of Knowledge in Mathematics. In: Is Science Progressive?. Synthese Library, vol 177. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1978-0_8
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