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Methods in social research (general) --- Mathematics --- -Math --- Science --- Social aspects --- -Social aspects --- Math --- Mathematics - Social aspects. --- Mathematics and society --- Society and mathematics --- Sociology of mathematics

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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.

Mathematics --- Logic of mathematics --- Mathematics, Logic of --- Math --- Science --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Mathematics and society --- Society and mathematics --- Sociology of mathematics

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Computers and civilization --- Mathematics --- -Mathematics --- -Math --- Science --- Civilization and computers --- Civilization --- Philosophy --- Social aspects --- Computers and civilization. --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- Descartes, René, --- -Philosophy --- Math --- Logic of mathematics --- Mathematics, Logic of --- Mathematics and society --- Society and mathematics --- Sociology of mathematics

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As discrete fields of inquiry, rhetoric and mathematics have long been considered antithetical to each other. That is, if mathematics explains or describes the phenomena it studies with certainty, persuasion is not needed. This volume calls into question the view that mathematics is free of rhetoric. Through nine studies of the intersections between these two disciplines, Arguing with Numbers shows that mathematics is in fact deeply rhetorical. Using rhetoric as a lens to analyze mathematically based arguments in public policy, political and economic theory, and even literature, the essays in this volume reveal how mathematics influences the values and beliefs with which we assess the world and make decisions and how our worldviews influence the kinds of mathematical instruments we construct and accept. In addition, contributors examine how concepts of rhetoric-such as analogy and visuality-have been employed in mathematical and scientific reasoning, including in the theorems of mathematical physicists and the geometrical diagramming of natural scientists. Challenging academic orthodoxy, these scholars reject a math-equals-truth reduction in favor of a more constructivist theory of mathematics as dynamic, evolving, and powerfully persuasive. By bringing these disparate lines of inquiry into conversation with one another, Arguing with Numbers provides inspiration to students, established scholars, and anyone inside or outside rhetorical studies who might be interested in exploring the intersections between the two disciplines.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Catherine Chaput, Crystal Broch Colombini, Nathan Crick, Michael Dreher, Jeanne Fahnestock, Andrew C. Jones, Joseph Little, and Edward Schiappa.

Mathematics --- Rhetoric --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Mathematics and society --- Society and mathematics --- Sociology of mathematics --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Rhetoric. --- algorithms. --- economics. --- education. --- mathematics. --- science. --- transdisciplinary.

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History of physics --- Comparative religion --- Philosophy of science --- Sociology of knowledge --- Mathematics --- Science --- Physics --- Mysticism --- Social aspects --- -Mysticism --- -Physics --- -Science --- -Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Math --- Social aspects. --- -Social aspects --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Mathematics and society --- Society and mathematics --- Sociology of mathematics --- Science - Social aspects --- Physics - Social aspects --- Mathematics - Social aspects --- Mysticism - Social aspects