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"Useful Invention or Absolute Truth: What is Math?" by George Johnson. Science Times, New York Times, 10 February 1998, pages C1 and C6.
A number of recent books have asserted, as Johnson puts it, that "mathematics is not an ethereal essence but comes from people who invented, not discovered, it." The books in this article discussed include What is Mathematics Really? by Reuben Hersh, The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics by Stanislas Dehaene, and The Limits of Mathematics by Gregory J. Chaitin.
See also Two reviews of The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics by Stanislas Dehaene, and "The Subjective Underbelly of Hardheaded Math".
--- Allyn Jackson
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