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What is a Mathematical Concept?
- Source :
- Journal of Humanistic Mathematics; Jul2019, Vol. 9 Issue 2, p309-322, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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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]
- Subjects :
- PHILOSOPHY of mathematics
MATHEMATICS education
CONCEPTS
MATHEMATICIANS
PHILOSOPHERS
Subjects
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