Mancosu - Philosophy of Mathematical Practice (Oxford, 2008).pdf

vipreface(introduction and research paper). That a project of this size could be broughtto completion within two years from its inception is a testimony to theirenergy, enthusiasm, and commitment.I am also very grateful to Peter Momtchiloff, editor at Oxford UniversityPress, for having believed in the project from the very beginning, for havingencouraged me to submit it to OUP, and for having followed its progress allalong.The production of the manuscript was the work of Fabrizio Cariani, agraduate student in the Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science atU.C. Berkeley. With great patience and expertise he turned a set of separateessays (some with lots of diagrams) in different formats into a beautiful anduniform LaTex document. I thank him for his invaluable help. His work wassupported by a Faculty Research Grant at U.C. Berkeley.Other individual acknowledgements will be given after the individualcontributions. But I would like to take advantage of my position as editorof the volume to thank my wife, Elena Russo, for her loving patience andsupport throughout the project.Berkeley, 17 May 2007