Mathematical Cultures (eBook, PDF)

The London Meetings 2012-2014
Redaktion: Larvor, Brendan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection presents significant contributions from an international network project on mathematical cultures, including essays from leading scholars in the history and philosophy of mathematics and mathematics education.¿

Mathematics has universal standards of validity. Nevertheless, there are local styles in mathematical research and teaching, and great variation in the place of mathematics in the larger cultures that mathematical practitioners belong to. The reflections on mathematical cultures collected in this book are of interest to mathematicians, philosophers, historians, sociologists, cognitive scientists and mathematics educators.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319285825
• Artikelnr.: 46924564

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Understanding the culturalconstruction of school mathematics.- Envisioning Transformations - The Practiceof Topology.- Creative Discomfort: The Culture of the Gelfand Seminar at MoscowUniversity.- Mathematical Culture and Mathematics Education in Hungary in theXXth Century.- On the Emergence of a New Mathematical Object: an Ethnography ofa Duality Transform.- What are we like... .- Mathematics as a socialdifferentiating factor: men of letters, politicians and engineers in Brazil throughthe Nineteenth Century.- "The End of Proof"? The integration of differentmathematical cultures as experimental mathematics comes of age.- Diversity inProof Appraisal.- What would the mathematics curriculum look like if instead ofconcepts and techniques, values were the focus? .- Mathematics and Values.- Purityas a Value in the German-speaking area.- Values in Caring for Proof.- Anempirical approach to the mathematical values of problem choice andargumentation.- The Notion of Fitas a Mathematical Value.- Mathematical Pull.-Mathematics and First Nations in Western Canada: from cultural destruction to are-awakening of mathematical reflections.- Remunerative Combinatorics:Mathematicians and their Sponsors in the Mid-Twentieth Century.- Calling aSpade a Spade: Mathematics in the New Pattern of Division of Labour.- Mathematicsand mathematical cultures in fiction: the case of Catherine Shaw.- Morality andMathematics.- The Great Gibberish - Mathematics in Western Popular Culture.- IsMathematics an issue of general education?.