The history of mathematics, lacking the guidance of philosophy, [is] blind, while the philosophy of mathematics, turning its back on the most intriguing phenomena in the history of mathematics, is empty.
Imre Lakatos (1976). “Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery”, p.2, Cambridge University Press
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