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differences (2021) 32 (3): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2021
... there exists a prohibition on mixing the types, and that the two core types themselves (geometry and arithmetic) are mutually intertwined using notions of hierarchy, foreignness, and priority. The author concludes that whatever incidental biases it may display, mathematics also contains an essential bias...
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differences (1996) 8 (3): 1–20.
Published: 01 November 1996
... Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1985 . 103 – 24 . Poovey Mary . Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: A History of the Modern Fact from Double-Entry Bookkeeping to Statistics . Chicago : U of Chicago P , forthcoming. Poovey...
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differences (1992) 4 (2): 16–44.
Published: 01 July 1992
... that approaches it infinitely closely (a spatial d fferences 25 image), Weierstrass defined the limit as the converging numerical sequence itself. Thus the foundation became an arithmetic function rather than a geometrical construction. As Carl Boyer makes explicit in The History of the Calculus and Its...
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differences (2017) 28 (1): 124–173.
Published: 01 May 2017
... who dealt with arithmetic, having several properties to give it that were common to all the numbers other than one, excluded the one from the meaning of the word number , so as not to have to say all the time we find such and such a condition in all numbers other than one ” (160). 11 Euclid...
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differences (1999) 11 (2): 177–203.
Published: 01 September 1999
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may precipitate a politician’s rating even further). Desires and prefer-
ences are quantified, reduced to arithmetical expression. Statistics have
also become a form of entertainment and exhibition. They are invoked
whimsically, as we...
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differences (1993) 5 (3): 1–30.
Published: 01 November 1993
... in England Since 1830. London : Routledge , 1987 . Poovey Mary . “ Curing the ‘Social Body’ in the 1830s: James Phillips Kay and the Irish in Manchester .” Gender and History 5 ( 1993 ): 196 - 211 . Poovey Mary . “ ‘Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech’: The Discourse...
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 169–187.
Published: 01 December 2020
... “is the means for rendering the debt infinite” (215). And anthropologist David Graeber highlights that money further has the “capacity to turn morality into a matter of impersonal arithmetic,” arguing that “[t]he difference between a ‘debt’ and a mere moral obligation [. . . ] is simply that a creditor has...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 10–30.
Published: 01 December 2011
... dissonances.
By the second half of the sixteenth century, the conception that
music was “born of mother arithmetic,” as one anonymous ninth-century
tract had put it, increasingly came to be regarded with suspicion (Musica...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 132–156.
Published: 01 September 2024
... to “the quantification of human life (in particular Black life) as a matter of perfecting the numerical threshold between life and death, and the arithmetic logic applied to both the preservation and loss of life.” Mathematics, then, deals with a related, but distinct, set of problems and possibilities for the ways we...
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differences (2004) 15 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 May 2004
... view, a despairing
observation. On the contrary, what it indicates is the necessary open-
ness of these questions to ongoing address. When all the arithmetic is a
priori and the conclusions all foregone, there is no intellectual...
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 85–113.
Published: 01 December 2021
... by a racial calculus and political arithmetic that were entrenched centuries ago” and that continue to skew, in the present, the “life chances, access to health and education, premature death, incarceration, and impoverishment” of Black communities ( Lose 6 ). 3 Hence, too, the relevance of Spillers...
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 115–151.
Published: 01 September 2020
... rail. On the train, colonial logics and sexual arithmetics bleed into one another. Watching Palestinians, coordinating their routes, estimating their movements, imagining their future trajectories. Perhaps, then, to cruise is to colonize. In the winter of 2019, a Palestinian woman wearing...
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differences (2006) 17 (2): 1–32.
Published: 01 September 2006
... being
a “complement” to such complements means occupying a place outside
their dichotomies—a place where their logic, like the logic of arithmetic,
no longer holds. Nakagami suggests as much in the “gleaming darkness...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 9–41.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Western mathematics was in the
write that the three-dimensional arithmetic text Liber Abaci, writ-
crocheted model of the manifold ten by Leonardo of Pisa in 1202...
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differences (2007) 18 (3): 7–42.
Published: 01 December 2007
... of their merit and not through favor or intrigue” (59).
The students were to be taught
reading, writing, grammar, arithmetic, geography, naviga-
tion, surveying, practical mathematics, astronomy, natural...
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 163–211.
Published: 01 May 2024
... reveals the calculated value of black and trans lives through states’ grammars of deficit and debt. [. . .] This mode of accounting, of expressing the arithmetic violence of black and trans death, as it also refers to antiblack, antiqueer, and antitrans forms of slow and imminent death, finds additional...
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differences (1998) 10 (2): 30–66.
Published: 01 July 1998
.... Increasing population density continued to mean increasing wealth, and the densely populated urban centers were the wealthiest of all. Malthusian economics, with its narrative of population growing exponentially and food production growing arithmetically, has proven to be an oversimplified model of economies...
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differences (1990) 2 (3): 52–108.
Published: 01 November 1990
... 93 newly-arrived Cuban and Southeast Asian refugees struggling with a new language and a new world, from illiterate adult men and women struggling to acquire basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills, and from street-wise teenagers struggling with everything. Yes, my questions, expectations...
