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Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning

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“Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.” W.S. Anglin, the Mathematical Intelligencer, 4 (4), 1982.

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    How can it be that long ago?

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    I was lucky also to have one of Alan’s postdocs, Fausto Giunchiglia as a second supervisor. We would work together closely for the next decade.

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Funded by the European Research Council under the Horizon 2020 Programme via the Advanced Research grant AMPLify 670077.

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Walsh, T. (2021). Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning. In: Michaelson, G. (eds) Mathematical Reasoning: The History and Impact of the DReaM Group. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77879-8_3

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