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On Mathematicians' Disagreements on What Constitutes a Proof
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Weber, Keith; Czocher, Jennifer – Research in Mathematics Education, 2019
We report the results of a study in which we asked 94 mathematicians to evaluate whether five arguments qualified as proofs. We found that mathematicians disagreed as to whether a visual argument and a computer-assisted argument qualified as proofs, but they viewed these proofs as atypical. The mathematicians were also aware that many other…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Professional Personnel, Mathematical Logic, Validity