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Mathematics, education, and philosophy [electronic resource] : an international perspective / edited by Paul Ernest.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in mathematics education series ; 3.Publication details: London ; Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, c1994.Description: 1 online resource (x, 250 p.) : illISBN:
  • 020322471X (electronic bk.)
  • 9780203224717 (electronic bk.)
  • 0203362594 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780203362594 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mathematics, education, and philosophy.DDC classification:
  • 510/.7 20
LOC classification:
  • QA11 .M3756 1994eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Fresh breezes in the philosophy of mathematics / Reuben Hersh -- What can the sociologist of knowledge say about 2 + 2 = 4? / David Bloor -- The dialogical nature of mathematics / Paul Ernest -- Structuralism and post-modernism in the philosophy of mathematics / Thomas Tymoczko -- Reasoning in a post-modern age / Valerie Walkerdine -- Mathematical writing, thinking, and virtual reality / Brian Rotman -- Mathematics : the problematical notion of closure / Anna Tsatsaroni and Jeff Evans -- On the ecologies of mathematical language and the rhythms of the Earth / David W. Jardine -- Discursive saturation and school mathematics texts : a strand from a language of description / Paul Dowling -- The dominance of structure in 'post-structural' critiques of mathematics education / Jeff Vass -- Describing the mathematics you are part of : a post-structuralist account of mathematical learning / Tony Brown -- Mathematics and art : cold calipers against warm flesh? / Philip J. Davis -- Skolem and G�odel / Hao Wang -- Different ways of knowing : contrasting styles of argument in Indian and Greek mathematical traditions / George Gheverghese Joseph -- The social life of mathematics / Sal Restivo -- Research in gender and mathematics education : the production of difference / Mair�ead Dunne and Jayne Johnston -- Ethno-mathematics, the nature of mathematics and mathematics education / Ubiratan D'Ambrosio.
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Fresh breezes in the philosophy of mathematics / Reuben Hersh -- What can the sociologist of knowledge say about 2 + 2 = 4? / David Bloor -- The dialogical nature of mathematics / Paul Ernest -- Structuralism and post-modernism in the philosophy of mathematics / Thomas Tymoczko -- Reasoning in a post-modern age / Valerie Walkerdine -- Mathematical writing, thinking, and virtual reality / Brian Rotman -- Mathematics : the problematical notion of closure / Anna Tsatsaroni and Jeff Evans -- On the ecologies of mathematical language and the rhythms of the Earth / David W. Jardine -- Discursive saturation and school mathematics texts : a strand from a language of description / Paul Dowling -- The dominance of structure in 'post-structural' critiques of mathematics education / Jeff Vass -- Describing the mathematics you are part of : a post-structuralist account of mathematical learning / Tony Brown -- Mathematics and art : cold calipers against warm flesh? / Philip J. Davis -- Skolem and G�odel / Hao Wang -- Different ways of knowing : contrasting styles of argument in Indian and Greek mathematical traditions / George Gheverghese Joseph -- The social life of mathematics / Sal Restivo -- Research in gender and mathematics education : the production of difference / Mair�ead Dunne and Jayne Johnston -- Ethno-mathematics, the nature of mathematics and mathematics education / Ubiratan D'Ambrosio.

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