Author: J.R. Lucas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134622279
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
The Conceptual Roots of Mathematics is a comprehensive study of the foundation of mathematics. J.R. Lucas, one of the most distinguished Oxford scholars, covers a vast amount of ground in the philosophy of mathematics, showing us that it is actually at the heart of the study of epistemology and metaphysics.
Conceptual Roots of Mathematics
Author: J.R. Lucas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134622279
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
The Conceptual Roots of Mathematics is a comprehensive study of the foundation of mathematics. J.R. Lucas, one of the most distinguished Oxford scholars, covers a vast amount of ground in the philosophy of mathematics, showing us that it is actually at the heart of the study of epistemology and metaphysics.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134622279
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
The Conceptual Roots of Mathematics is a comprehensive study of the foundation of mathematics. J.R. Lucas, one of the most distinguished Oxford scholars, covers a vast amount of ground in the philosophy of mathematics, showing us that it is actually at the heart of the study of epistemology and metaphysics.
Where Mathematics Come From How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being
Author: George Lakoff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A study of the cognitive science of mathematical ideas.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A study of the cognitive science of mathematical ideas.
Conceptual Mathematics
Author: F. William Lawvere
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521894859
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This truly elementary book on categories introduces retracts, graphs, and adjoints to students and scientists.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521894859
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This truly elementary book on categories introduces retracts, graphs, and adjoints to students and scientists.
The Crest of the Peacock
Author: George Gheverghese Joseph
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn
Author: Dorothea Olkowski
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253001129
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
What can come of a scientific engagement with postmodern philosophy? Some scientists have claimed that the social sciences and humanities have nothing to contribute, except perhaps peripherally, to their research. Dorothea E. Olkowski shows that the historic link between science and philosophy, mathematics itself, plays a fundamental role in the development of the worldviews that drive both fields. Focusing on language, its expression of worldview and usage, she develops a phenomenological account of human thought and action to explicate the role of philosophy in the sciences. Olkowski proposes a model of phenomenology, both scientific and philosophical, that helps make sense of reality and composes an ethics for dealing with unpredictability in our world.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253001129
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
What can come of a scientific engagement with postmodern philosophy? Some scientists have claimed that the social sciences and humanities have nothing to contribute, except perhaps peripherally, to their research. Dorothea E. Olkowski shows that the historic link between science and philosophy, mathematics itself, plays a fundamental role in the development of the worldviews that drive both fields. Focusing on language, its expression of worldview and usage, she develops a phenomenological account of human thought and action to explicate the role of philosophy in the sciences. Olkowski proposes a model of phenomenology, both scientific and philosophical, that helps make sense of reality and composes an ethics for dealing with unpredictability in our world.
The New Math
Author: Christopher James Phillips
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022618496X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
An era of sweeping cultural change in America, the postwar years saw the rise of beatniks and hippies, the birth of feminism, and the release of the first video game. This book examines the rise and fall of the new math as a marker of the period's political and social ferment.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022618496X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
An era of sweeping cultural change in America, the postwar years saw the rise of beatniks and hippies, the birth of feminism, and the release of the first video game. This book examines the rise and fall of the new math as a marker of the period's political and social ferment.
Conceptual Roots of Mathematics
Author: J.R. Lucas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134622260
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
The Conceptual Roots of Mathematics is a comprehensive study of the foundation of mathematics. J.R. Lucas, one of the most distinguished Oxford scholars, covers a vast amount of ground in the philosophy of mathematics, showing us that it is actually at the heart of the study of epistemology and metaphysics.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134622260
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
The Conceptual Roots of Mathematics is a comprehensive study of the foundation of mathematics. J.R. Lucas, one of the most distinguished Oxford scholars, covers a vast amount of ground in the philosophy of mathematics, showing us that it is actually at the heart of the study of epistemology and metaphysics.
History in Mathematics Education
Author: John Fauvel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0306472201
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This ground-breaking book investigates how the learning and teaching of mathematics can be improved through integrating the history of mathematics into all aspects of mathematics education: lessons, homework, texts, lectures, projects, assessment, and curricula. It draws upon evidence from the experience of teachers as well as national curricula, textbooks, teacher education practices, and research perspectives across the world. It includes a 300-item annotated bibliography of recent work in the field in eight languages.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0306472201
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This ground-breaking book investigates how the learning and teaching of mathematics can be improved through integrating the history of mathematics into all aspects of mathematics education: lessons, homework, texts, lectures, projects, assessment, and curricula. It draws upon evidence from the experience of teachers as well as national curricula, textbooks, teacher education practices, and research perspectives across the world. It includes a 300-item annotated bibliography of recent work in the field in eight languages.
Women in Mathematics
Author: Claudia Henrion
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253114990
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
"... a wonderful addition to any mathematics teacher's professional bookshelf." -- The Mathematics Teacher "The individual biographies themselves make for enthralling, often inspiring, reading... this volume should be compelling reading for women mathematics students and professionals. A fine addition to the literature on women in science... Highly recommended." -- Choice "... it makes an important contribution to scholarship on the interrelations of gender, mathematics, and culture in the U.S. in the second half of the twentieth century." -- Notices of the AMS "Who is the audience for this book? Certainly women who are interested in studying mathematics and women already in mathematics who have become discouraged will find much to interest and help them. Faculty who teach such women would put it to good use. But it would be a loss to relegate the book to a shelf for occasional reference to an interested student or beginning mathematician. Everyone in the mathematics community in which each of Henrion's subjects struggled so hard to find a place could benefit by a thoughtful reading." -- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) News Mathematics is often described as the purest of the sciences, the least tainted by subjective or cultural influences. Theoretically, the only requirement for a life of mathematics is mathematical ability. And yet we see very few women mathematicians. Why? Based upon a series of ten intensive interviews with prominent women mathematicians throughout the United States, this book investigates the role of gender in the complex relationship between mathematician, the mathematical community, and mathematics itself.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253114990
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
"... a wonderful addition to any mathematics teacher's professional bookshelf." -- The Mathematics Teacher "The individual biographies themselves make for enthralling, often inspiring, reading... this volume should be compelling reading for women mathematics students and professionals. A fine addition to the literature on women in science... Highly recommended." -- Choice "... it makes an important contribution to scholarship on the interrelations of gender, mathematics, and culture in the U.S. in the second half of the twentieth century." -- Notices of the AMS "Who is the audience for this book? Certainly women who are interested in studying mathematics and women already in mathematics who have become discouraged will find much to interest and help them. Faculty who teach such women would put it to good use. But it would be a loss to relegate the book to a shelf for occasional reference to an interested student or beginning mathematician. Everyone in the mathematics community in which each of Henrion's subjects struggled so hard to find a place could benefit by a thoughtful reading." -- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) News Mathematics is often described as the purest of the sciences, the least tainted by subjective or cultural influences. Theoretically, the only requirement for a life of mathematics is mathematical ability. And yet we see very few women mathematicians. Why? Based upon a series of ten intensive interviews with prominent women mathematicians throughout the United States, this book investigates the role of gender in the complex relationship between mathematician, the mathematical community, and mathematics itself.
What is a Mathematical Concept?
Author: Elizabeth de Freitas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107134633
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Leading thinkers in mathematics, philosophy and education offer new insights into the fundamental question: what is a mathematical concept?
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107134633
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Leading thinkers in mathematics, philosophy and education offer new insights into the fundamental question: what is a mathematical concept?