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Are there perspectives in mathematics?

It is tempting to think that mathematics is not the kind of subject in which you can have perspectives - either a conjecture is true or not - it doesn't depend on a particular point of view. It turns out that, concerning mathematics as a whole, different mathematicians have different ideas about what they are doing when they are doing mathematics. Mathematics and culture Are there perspectives in mathematics? Surely...

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