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Mathematics, education, and philosophy an international perspective
Title:
Mathematics, education, and philosophy an international perspective
Author:
Ernest, Paul.
ISBN:
9780203224717

9780750705691

9780203362594

9780203485842

9780750702904
Publication Information:
London ; Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, c1994.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 250 p.) : ill.
Series:
Studies in mathematics education series ; 3

Studies in mathematics education series ; 3.
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 Gödel / 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 / Mairéad Dunne and Jayne Johnston -- Ethno-mathematics, the nature of mathematics and mathematics education / Ubiratan D'Ambrosio.
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