Conflict among school of thought in mathematics: exploring potentialities to improve the teaching of mathematics and physics

We explore some aspects of the rival conceptions on the foundations of mathematics appeared during the first half of the twentieth century. We consider the conceptions respectively adopted by the four following schools of thought: the logicist school, the intuicionist school, the formalist school an...

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Main Authors: Bernardo Leopardi Gonçalves B. Bastos, Jenner Barretto Bastos Filho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2003-01-01
Series:Investigações em Ensino de Ciências
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Online Access:http://www.if.ufrgs.br/ienci/artigos/Artigo_ID97/v8_n1_a2003.pdf