Muntersbjorn, Madeline M. (Author)
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Volume: 27
Pages: 107--118
Poincaré's understanding of how mathematics grows over time was informed by the theory of evolution by natural selection and Mach's economy of thought. According to Poincaré, mathematics is neither created nor discovered but cultivated as part of our intellectual inheritance. This paper is based on a lecture delivered at the joint meeting of the BSHM and CSHPM at Trinity College, Dublin, 2011. The title echoes The mathematical heritage of Henri Poincaré (1983) a collection of essays edited by Felix Browder.
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