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Mathematics as sign : writing, imagining, counting

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"Two features of mathematics stand out: its menagerie of seemingly eternal objects (numbers, spaces, patterns, functions, categories, morphisms, graphs, and on), and the hieroglyphics of special notations, signs, symbols, and diagrams associated with them. The author challenges the widespread belief in the extra-human origins of these objects and the understanding of mathematics as either a purely mental activity
Preface: Writing, Imagining, Counting --
Toward a Semiotics of Mathematics --
Making Marks on Paper --
How Ideal Are the Reals? --
God Tricks; or, Numbers from the Bottom Up? --
Counting on Non-Euclidean Fingers.

Author(s): Brian Rotman.
Series: Writing science.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Year: 2000.

Language: English
Pages: x, 170 p. ; 23 cm.
City: Stanford, Calif.
Tags: Математика;Философия математики;