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What is a Mathematical Concept?

Authors :
Larvor, Brendan P.
Source :
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics; Jul2019, Vol. 9 Issue 2, p309-322, 14p
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

This is a review of What is a Mathematical Concept? edited by Elizabeth de Freitas, Nathalie Sinclair, and Alf Coles (Cambridge University Press, 2017). In this collection of sixteen chapters, philosophers, educationalists, historians of mathematics, a cognitive scientist, and a mathematician consider, problematise, historicise, contextualise, and destabilise the terms 'mathematical' and 'concept'. The contributors come from many disciplines, but the editors are all in mathematics education, which gives the whole volume a disciplinary centre of gravity. The editors set out to explore and reclaim the canonical question 'what is a mathematical concept?' from the philosophy of mathematics. This review comments on each paper in the collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
21598118
Volume :
9
Issue :
2
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
137877367
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.5642/jhummath.201902.21