Davis: The Prospects for Mathematics in a Multi-Media Civilization

The content of mathematics and its applications are intimately related both to the manner in which it is investigated and to the larger society that supports those investigations. Civilization is moving into a multi-media age more rapidly than historians of technology can record the movement. Though computers derive from the spirit of mathematics, multi-media is bound to feed back and profoundly affect mathematics itself. Some speculations will be offered on the possible effects of this movement from the point of view of the production and the uses of mathematics.

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