James Franklin is a senior lecturer in Mathematics at the University of New
South Wales. He holds a PhD in algebra from Warwick University, and has
written on the history of ideas and on neural nets as well as on the philosophy of
mathematics. He is co-author of the textbook
_Introduction to Proofs in Mathematics _
(http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/proofs.html) and the history _The Science of Conjecture _
(http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/2844.html) and is completing a _book on recent
Australian philosophy_ (http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/contents.html) .
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