TY - BOOK ID - 85644142 TI - What is a mathematical concept? AU - De Freitas, Elizabeth AU - Sinclair, Nathalie AU - Coles, Alf PY - 2017 SN - 1108206735 1108214835 1108216188 1108217532 1108224288 1316471128 1108218881 1107134633 1316500667 PB - New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Mathematics KW - Logic of mathematics KW - Mathematics, Logic of KW - Math KW - Science KW - Social aspects. KW - Philosophy. KW - Mathematics and society KW - Society and mathematics KW - Sociology of mathematics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85644142 AB - Responding to widespread interest within cultural studies and social inquiry, this book addresses the question 'what is a mathematical concept?' using a variety of vanguard theories in the humanities and posthumanities. Tapping historical, philosophical, sociological and psychological perspectives, each chapter explores the question of how mathematics comes to matter. Of interest to scholars across the usual disciplinary divides, this book tracks mathematics as a cultural activity, drawing connections with empirical practice. Unlike other books in this area, it is highly interdisciplinary, devoted to exploring the ontology of mathematics as it plays out in different contexts. This book will appeal to scholars who are interested in particular mathematical habits - creative diagramming, structural mappings, material agency, interdisciplinary coverings - that shed light on both mathematics and other disciplines. Chapters are also relevant to social sciences and humanities scholars, as each offers philosophical insight into mathematics and how we might live mathematically. ER -