Mathematical Cultures (eBook)

Introduction.- Understanding the cultural
construction of school mathematics.- Envisioning Transformations – The Practice
of Topology.- Creative Discomfort: The Culture of the Gelfand Seminar at Moscow
University.- Mathematical Culture and Mathematics Education in Hungary in the
XXth Century.- On the Emergence of a New Mathematical Object: an Ethnography of
a Duality Transform.- What are we like… .- Mathematics as a social
differentiating factor: men of letters, politicians and engineers in Brazil through
the Nineteenth Century.- “The End of Proof”? The integration of different
mathematical cultures as experimental mathematics comes of age.- Diversity in
Proof Appraisal.- What would the mathematics curriculum look like if instead of
concepts and techniques, values were the focus? .- Mathematics and Values.- Purity
as a Value in the German-speaking area.- Values in Caring for Proof.- An
empirical approach to the mathematical values of problem choice and
argumentation.- The Notion of Fit as a Mathematical Value.- Mathematical Pull.-
Mathematics and First Nations in Western Canada: from cultural destruction to a
re-awakening of mathematical reflections.- Remunerative Combinatorics:
Mathematicians and their Sponsors in the Mid-Twentieth Century.- Calling a
Spade a Spade: Mathematics in the New Pattern of Division of Labour.- Mathematics
and mathematical cultures in fiction: the case of Catherine Shaw.- Morality and
Mathematics.- The Great Gibberish - Mathematics in Western Popular Culture.- Is
Mathematics an issue of general education?.