Abstract
There is a philosophical debate on explanation in science, and a philosophical debate on explanation in mathematics. They have proceeded largely independently of each other. For example, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy articles on ‘Scientific explanation’1 and ‘Explanation in mathematics’2 barely mention any common issues and have only three items in common in their extensive bibliographies. That is strange, since prima facie explanation works much the same way in mathematics and in science. An account of scientific explanation is incomplete if it does not cover explanation in mathematics (or at least include some reasoning on why the mathematical case is different).
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