Search Results for mathematical practice

... This chapter presents a category of “mathematical style,” drawing inspiration from a paper by the mathematician Claude Chevalley published in 1935 in the Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale. Comparisons are made with other notions of styles of scientific thinking, such as that developed by Ian...

... history of mathematics in China algebraic equations epistemological cultures mathematical practice mathematical operation ...

... provides essential tools for interpreting sources. The author identifies different mathematical cultures in China during the time span considered that display both continuities and transformations in mathematical practice. In each of these contexts, the concept of equation identified correlates with both...

... considered that display both continuities and transformations in mathematical practice. In each of these contexts, the concept of equation identified correlates with both computational tools and ways of working with diagrams. This approach highlights material dimensions of conceptual history. What...

... is used to struggle for accountability and postwar repair by linking them to an ethnomathematics—mathematics practiced by an identifiable cultural group—in this case early modern Europeans. Rather than a simple “number is good because it’s true” versus “number is bad because it’s dehumanizing...

... of accumulation by dispossession and with the way number is used to struggle for accountability and postwar repair by linking them to an ethnomathematics—mathematics practiced by an identifiable cultural group—in this case early modern Europeans. Rather than a simple “number is good because it’s true” versus...

... This chapter situates history making as a way of redressing contemporary queer violence in Jamaica. In so doing, it considers how mathematics shapes historical thought as a mode of representation and suggests displacing the dominance of arithmetic in practices of history making. It centers...

... This chapter explores questions about the social and cultural aspects of the making and the reading of a scientific theory. What is a mathematical proof? What does it mean to understand a mathematical work? To shed light on these questions, this chapter compares Évariste Galois’s memoir and some...

... in particular instances through situated and singular practices. This book engages Guatemalans’ experiences via number but also strives to unsettle readers’ relations to counting, especially the idea that mathematics is the only true universal language. ...

... The introduction introduces readers to the community of scientists who work in ocean wave prediction and modeling and observes that these researchers understand waves through practices of abstraction (visual, mathematical, computational), here theorized as kinds of “reading,” or modes of sense...

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... between mind and reality—the chapter explores the practices and apparatuses necessary to make people count, to produce truth. exhumations forensic anthropology algebra legal system DNA disappearances human rights truth commission counting techniques police archives trial of General...

... This chapter revisits the cosmology of indigenous numeracy, drawing on both Mayan and Quechua counting to argue that they engage practices of rectification that support, even as they are not exactly equivalent to, the labors of number in human rights accountancy. The chapter contemplates...

...—the chapter explores the practices and apparatuses necessary to make people count, to produce truth. exhumations forensic anthropology algebra legal system DNA disappearances human rights truth commission counting techniques police archives trial of General Ríos Montt ...