“Explanatory” talk in mathematics research papers

In this paper we explore the ways in which mathematicians talk about explanation in their research papers. We analyze the use of the words explain/explanation (and various related words) in a large corpus of text containing research papers in both mathematics and physical sciences. We found that mat...

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Main Authors: Juan P. Mejia-Ramos, Matthew Inglis
Format: Default Conference proceeding
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/23389
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