Overview
- Provides a rare encounter between the emerging philosophy of mathematical practice and the ‘cultural turn’ in mathematics education
- Discusses questions about the value of mathematics
- Connects studies of mathematical practice and the motivations of school and university students of mathematics?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Trends in the History of Science (TRENDSHISTORYSCIENCE)
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Table of contents (24 papers)
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Front Matter
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First Meeting: Varieties
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Second Meeting: Values
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About this book
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.Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematical Cultures
Book Subtitle: The London Meetings 2012-2014
Editors: Brendan Larvor
Series Title: Trends in the History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28582-5
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28580-1Published: 26 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80379-1Published: 26 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28582-5Published: 25 May 2016
Series ISSN: 2297-2951
Series E-ISSN: 2297-296X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 460
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics Education, Philosophy of Science