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20Representations as means and ends: Representability and habituation in mathematical analysis during the first part of the nineteenth centuryIn Bart Van Kerkhove (ed.), New Perspectives on Mathematical Practices: Essays in Philosophy and History of Mathematics, World Scientific. pp. 114--137. 2009.
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60Rüdiger Campe, The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. viii+486. ISBN 978-0-8047-6865-8. $35.00 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 47 (4): 727-728. 2014.
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805Experimental mathematics in the 1990s: A second loss of certainty?Oberwolfach Reports (12): 601--604. 2010.In this paper, I describe some aspects of the phenomenon of "experimental mathematics" in order to discuss whether it constitutes a subdiscipline or a particular style of mathematics. My conclusion is that neither of these notions accurately capture the complex culture of experimental mathematics.
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