Explanation in Mathematics

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“There are various attempts in the literature to clarify what it means for a mathematical result to be explanatory. For example, Kitcher [25] takes explanation to be theoretical unification, while Steiner [38] expects an explanatory proof to make use of a “characteristic property” of an object mentioned in the theorem in a certain way. (These and other approaches are nicely surveyed in [?].)” – [?], page 37 of the preprint.

The topic is currently put forward by Paolo Mancosu [?] and one may ask whether H24 can be related to it in one or the other form.

For a recent discussion see also the following book: [?].