Text: Mathematics: The loss of certainty. Mathematics is not a body of unshakable truths about the physical world and mathematical reasoning is not exact and infallible. This book refutes the myths about mathematics. Today there are many conflicting concepts of mathematics, directly and indirectly affecting all employment of reason. The previously accepted feature of mathematics, unquestionable proof from explicit axioms, now seems passe. Logic has all the fallibility and uncertainty that limit human minds. Essential reading to everyone interested in science and "scientific truth." New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

See Also: foundations of mathematics, foundations of logic, foundations of physics

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