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Re:The Mathematician (1947) by panic on Friday October 26, 2018 @09:36AM (#18309041)
I can also recommend Proofs and Refutations by Imre Lakatos. It's an unusually easy read for a philosophy book (fewer than 200 pages and written as a sort of Socratic dialogue) and engages with some very deep problems related to the nature of mathematical proofs.

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