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Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.

Philip J. Davis

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Philip J. Davis
Age: 95 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 2
Died: 2018
Died: March 13
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Lawrence
Massachusetts
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In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects with reproducible properties is called mathematics.
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