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Conflicts, scandals, injustices, and controversies often reveal significant historical shifts in social organization. This is as true in science as it is in other social activities. Science is not characterized by one enduring set of norms and values. What does endure is the activity of scientists and scientific workers pursuing wealth, farne, and the power to control the flow of ideas and to impose their ideas on others. This is characteristic of other intellectual activities as well, including mathematics.
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Restivo, S. (1992). Conflict, Social Change, and Mathematics in Europe. In: Mathematics in Society and History. Episteme, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2944-2_7
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