Amongst Mathematicians

About the author: Elena Nardi was born in 1968. She studied mathematics (BSc) in Thessaloniki, Greece and mathematics education at Cambridge (MPhil) and Oxford (DPhil) in the UK. Her research is in various areas of mathematics education, with a particular emphasis on the psychology of mathematical learning and the teaching and learning of mathematics at the undergraduate level. She is Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. She is involved with graduate supervision and with teaching mathematics education and research methods, she co-ordinates UEA's group of researchers in mathematics education and she is Joint Editor in Chief (2008-2010) of Research in Mathematics Education the new international journal of the British Society for Research into the Learning of Mathematics. Her book Amongst Mathematicians: Teaching and Learning Mathematics at University Level is due in the spring/summer of 2007 by Springer. For more information on Elena's work: http://www.uea.ac.uk/~m011/

Background And Context.- Method, Process And Presentation.- The Encounter With Formal Mathematical Reasoning: Conceptualising Its Significance And Enacting Its Techniques.- Mediating Mathematical Meaning Through Symbolisation, Verbalisation and Visualisation.- The Encounter With the Concept Of Function.- The Encounter With the Concept Of Limit.- Undergraduate Mathematics Pedagogy.- Fragile, yet Crucial: The Relationship Between Mathematicians and Researchers in Mathematics Education.