Check order status

Become part of a community of book lovers from all over the world and get access to a whole bunch of benefits. Create an account for free

Austrian Post 5.49 € GLS courier 4.99 € DPD courier 4.49 € DPD point 3.49 €

Contact

How to shop

Help

My account

▸ Empty :-(

Mathematics as Sign

Name: Mathematics as Sign
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 04717012
Price: 113.59 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Brian Rotman
ISBN: 9780804736831

Brian Rotman

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04717012

Publishers Stanford University Press, August 2000

Two features of mathematics stand out: its menagerie of seemingly eternal objects (numbers, spaces,... Full description

Libristo code: 04717012

278 b

113.59 € VAT included

In stock at our supplier Shipping in 14-21 days

Delivery to Austria

Up to 30 days for returns

Customers also purchased

Basarili Insanlarin 100 Sirri David Niven

Paperback

9.59 €

MARTINA Y EL PERRO DE LA PROTECTORA LISSA PAPP

Hardback

15.89 €

Le Vodou, un art de vivre Jacques Hainard

Paperback

26.39 €

Demenz Hans Stolp

Book

14.95 €

Preparación al DELE B1 - Claves. Transcripciones y soluciones comentadas. Mónica García-Vi?ó Sánchez

Paperback

6.19 €

Zszywacz 24/6-26/6 czarny 20 ark.

binding.

3.99 €

Gesamtwerk - Einfuhrung Henrik Ibsen

Hardback

24.90 €

Two features of mathematics stand out: its menagerie of seemingly eternal objects (numbers, spaces, patterns, functions, categories, morphisms, graphs, and so 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 about them or a formal game of manipulating symbols. Instead, he argues that mathematics is a vast and unique man-made imagination machine controlled by writing. Mathematics as Sign addresses both aspects mental and linguistic of this machine. The opening essay, Toward a Semiotics of Mathematics (long acknowledged as a seminal contribution to its field), sets out the author s underlying model. According to this model, doing mathematics constitutes a kind of waking dream or thought experiment in which a proxy of the self is propelled around imagined worlds that are conjured into intersubjective being through signs.