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Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman; Reuben Hersh argues the contrary, that mathematics must be understood as a human activity, a social phenomenon, part of human culture, historically evolved, and intelligible only in a social context. In this volume Hersh pulls the screen back to reveal mathematics as seen by professionals, debunking many mathematical myths, and demonstrating how the 鈥渉umanist鈥� idea of the nature of mathematics more closely resembles how mathematicians actually work.