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What is a Mathematical Concept?

Elizabeth de Freitas, Nathalie Sinclair and Alf Coles
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 
2018
Number of Pages: 
288
Format: 
Hardcover
Price: 
110.00
ISBN: 
9781107134638
Category: 
Anthology
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Introduction
Part I:
1. Of polyhedra and pyjamas: platonism and induction in meaning-finitist mathematics Michael J. Barany
2. Mathematical concepts? The view from ancient history Reviel Netz
Part II:
3. On treating mathematical drawings as artworks Juliette Kennedy
4. Concepts as generative devices Elizabeth de Freitas and Nathalie Sinclair
Part III:
5. Bernhard Riemann's conceptual mathematics and pedagogy of mathematical concepts Arkady Plotnitsky
6. Deleuze and the conceptualizable character of mathematical theories Simon Duffy
Part IV:
7. The vertical unity of the concept of space David Corfield
8. The perfectoid concept: test case for an absent theory Michael Harris
Part V:
9. Queering mathematical concepts Heather Mendick
10. Mathematics concepts in the news Richard Barwell and Yasmine Abtahi
11. Concepts and commodities in mathematical learning Tony Brown
Part VI:
12. A relational view of mathematical concepts Alf Coles
13. Cultural concepts concretely Wolff-Michael Roth
Part VII:
14. Ideas as species Brent Davis
15. Inhabiting mathematical concepts Ricardo Nemirovsky
Afterword. Making a thing of it: some conceptual commentary David Pimm
Index.