Mathematical Cultures The London Meetings 2012 2014 1st Edition by Brendan Larvor ISBN 3319803794 978-3319803791

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ISBN 10: 3319803794 

ISBN 13: 978-3319803791

Author: Brendan Larvor

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.

Table of contents:

Front Matter

1. Editorial Introduction

First Meeting: Varieties

2. Understanding the Cultural Construction of School Mathematics

3. Envisioning Transformations—The Practice of Topology

4. Creative Discomfort: The Culture of the Gelfand Seminar at Moscow University

5. Mathematical Culture and Mathematics Education in Hungary in the XXth Century

6. On the Emergence of a New Mathematical Object: An Ethnography of a Duality Transform

7. What Are We Like …

8. Mathematics as a Social Differentiating Factor: Men of Letters, Politicians, and Engineers in Brazil Through the Nineteenth Century

9. “The End of Proof”? The Integration of Different Mathematical Cultures as Experimental Mathematics Comes of Age

Second Meeting: Values

10. Diversity in Proof Appraisal

11. What Would the Mathematics Curriculum Look Like if Instead of Concepts and Techniques, Values Were the Focus?

12. Mathematics and Values

13. Purity as a Value in the German-Speaking Area

14. Values in Caring for Proof

15. An Empirical Approach to the Mathematical Values of Problem Choice and Argumentation

16. The Notion of Fit as a Mathematical Value

17. Mathematical Pull

Third Meeting: Interfaces

18. Mathematics and First Nations in Western Canada: From Cultural Destruction to a Re-Awakening of Mathematical Reflections

19. Remunerative Combinatorics: Mathematicians and Their Sponsors in the Mid-Twentieth Century

20. Calling a Spade a Spade: Mathematics in the New Pattern of Division of Labour

21. Mathematics and Mathematical Cultures in Fiction: The Case of Catherine Shaw

22. Morality and Mathematics

23. The Great Gibberish—Mathematics in Western Popular Culture

24. Is Mathematics an Issue of General Education?

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