Brouwer–Hilbert controversy
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The Brouwer–Hilbert controversy refers to a fundamental disagreement between two prominent mathematicians, L.E.J. Brouwer and David Hilbert, regarding the foundations of mathematics, specifically concerning the nature of mathematical existence and the interpretation of mathematical entities. **Background:** Brouwer was a proponent of intuitionism, a philosophy that emphasizes the idea that mathematical truths are not discovered but constructed by the human mind.
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