The language of mathematics : telling mathematical tales
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The language of mathematics : telling mathematical tales
（Mathematics education library, v. 44）
Springer, c2008
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
The book emerges from several contemporary concerns in mathematics, language, and mathematics education. However, the book takes a different stance with respect to language by combining discussion of linguistics and mathematics using examples from each to illustrate the other. The picture that emerges is of a subject that is much more contingent, much more relative, much more subject to human experience than is usually accepted. Another way of expressing this, is that the thesis of the book takes the idea of mathematics as a human creation, and, using the evidence from language, comes to more radical conclusions than most writers allow.
Table of Contents
Speaking Mathematics Differently.- Space: Points of Reference.- Space: Static and Dynamic World Views.- Quantity: Trapping Numbers in Grammatical Nets.- Language and Mathematics.- The Evidence from Language.- Mumbling, Metaphors, & Mindlocks: The Origins of Mathematics.- A Never-Ending Braid: the Development of Mathematics.- What is Mathematics? Philosophical Comments.- Implications for Mathematics Education.- Learning Mathematics.- Multilingual and Indigenous Mathematics Education.
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