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Jean Paul Van Bendegem

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Jean Paul Van Bendegem is a Belgian mathematician and philosopher of science, born in Ghent in 1953. He is a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where his work centers on the philosophy of mathematical practice and on strict finitism, an approach that questions whether mathematics requires an infinite domain of objects.

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Jean Paul Van Bendegem (born 28 March 1953 in Ghent) is a mathematician, a philosopher of science
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