ABSTRACT
As we said in Chapter 1, this book is not meant to provide comprehensive
coverage of experimental mathematics. Indeed, it’s not clear what such a
book would look like-except to say that it would be very big-since ex-
perimental mathematics is really an approach to mathematical discovery.
(That approach does, however, imply a view on what constitutes math-
ematical knowledge, a view that goes well beyond the traditional “what
has been proved” to encompass as well “that for which we have good
evidence”—with the same caveat on the latter as is widely accepted in the
natural sciences.)
