Reuben Hersh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Reuben Hersh

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1927

Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York, United States

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Reuben Hersh

  • Reuben Hersh (born 1927) is an American mathematician and academic, best known for his writings on the nature, practice, and social impact of mathematics.
  • This work challenges and complements mainstream philosophy of mathematics.
  • ("Hersh" is his professional or pen name.
  • His family name is Reuben Laznovsky.) After receiving a B.A.
  • in English literature from Harvard University in 1946, Hersh spent a decade writing for Scientific American and working as a machinist.
  • After losing his right thumb when working with a band saw, he decided to study mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
  • In 1962, he was awarded a Ph.D.
  • in mathematics from New York University; his advisor was P.D.
  • Lax.
  • He has been affiliated with the University of New Mexico since 1964, where he is now professor emeritus. Hersh has written a number of technical articles on partial differential equations, probability, random evolutions (example), and linear operator equations.
  • He is the (co)author of four articles in Scientific American, and 12 articles in the Mathematical Intelligencer. Hersh is best known as the coauthor with Philip J.
  • Davis of The Mathematical Experience (1981), which won a National Book Award in Science.Hersh advocates what he calls a "humanist" philosophy of mathematics, opposed to both Platonism (so-called "realism") and its rivals nominalism/fictionalism/formalism.
  • He holds that mathematics is real, and its reality is social-cultural-historical, located in the shared thoughts of those who learn it, teach it, and create it.
  • His article "The Kingdom of Math is Within You" (a chapter in his Experiencing Mathematics, 2014) explains how mathematicians' proofs compel agreement, even when they are inadequate as formal logic.
  • He sympathizes with the perspectives on mathematics of Imre Lakatos and Where Mathematics Comes From, George Lakoff and Rafael Nunez, Basic Books.

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