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Re:Hilbert's 24th problem by jackmaney on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @12:40PM (#8198304)
Most universities have a course specifically geared towards proofs, including first order propositional and predicate logic, set theory, basic proof techniques, etc. I've taught this particular course a few times when I was in academia, and one of the better books that was around at the time (2004--8) was Krantz's _Elements of Advanced Mathematics_.
Re:Hilbert's 24th problem by jackmaney on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @12:43PM (#8198320)
Also, the initial dialog in _Proofs and Refutations_ by Imre Lakatos is a nice discussion not only of proofs, but on thought processes that one often goes through during mathematical research.