Mathematics as a Social Language: A (Past and Present) Phenomenology

Paolo Rossi ()
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Paolo Rossi: Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Fisica

A chapter in Imagine Math 6, 2018, pp 145-148 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract It is argued that the exchange between the formal and the social uses of mathematics has often been mediated by recreational mathematics. Many examples are offered, taken by ancient and modern history.

Keywords: Social Language; Recreational Mathematics; Gerbert; Fibonacci; BETWEEN MATHEMATICAL (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93949-0_13

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