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In principle, this book is the result of a study of the research practices of mathematicians. The study was an attempt to get inside how mathematicians construct their own knowing of their discipline through their research. But, in reality, undertaking that study was my response to a professional lifetime of trying to understand what I perceived as an irreconcilable gap between how I heard mathematicians describing the pleasures and pain of their craft, and how I experienced, and observed, them teaching mathematics. Research has confirmed that mathematics in higher education is content-dependent and didactically traditional (see, for example, Burton & Haines, 1997).
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Burton, L. (2004). Why this book?. In: Mathematicians as Enquirers. Mathematics Education Library, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-7908-5_1
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