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Author Wagner, Roi, 1973- author.
Title Making and breaking mathematical sense : histories and philosophies of mathematical practice / Roi Wagner.
Publisher Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Copyright date ©2017


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Descript ix, 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Contents Introduction -- Histories of philosophies of mathematics -- The new entities of abbacus and renaissance algebra -- A constraints-based philosophy of mathematical practice -- Two case studies of semiosis in mathematics -- Mathematics and cognition -- Mathematical metaphors gone wild -- Making a world, mathematically.
ISBN 9780691171715
0691171718
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Author Wagner, Roi, 1973- author.
Subject Mathematics -- Philosophy -- History.
Mathematics -- History
Descript ix, 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Introduction -- Histories of philosophies of mathematics -- The new entities of abbacus and renaissance algebra -- A constraints-based philosophy of mathematical practice -- Two case studies of semiosis in mathematics -- Mathematics and cognition -- Mathematical metaphors gone wild -- Making a world, mathematically.
ISBN 9780691171715
0691171718
Author Wagner, Roi, 1973- author.
Subject Mathematics -- Philosophy -- History.
Mathematics -- History
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  QA8.4 .W334 2017  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Mathematics -- Philosophy -- History.
Mathematics -- History
Descript ix, 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Introduction -- Histories of philosophies of mathematics -- The new entities of abbacus and renaissance algebra -- A constraints-based philosophy of mathematical practice -- Two case studies of semiosis in mathematics -- Mathematics and cognition -- Mathematical metaphors gone wild -- Making a world, mathematically.
ISBN 9780691171715
0691171718

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