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Roi Wagner uniquely combines philosophical, historical, and cognitive studies to paint a fully rounded image of mathematics not as an absolute ideal but as a human endeavor that takes shape in specific social and institutional contexts. The book builds on ancient, medieval, and modern case studies to confront philosophical reconstructions and cutting-edge cognitive theories. It focuses on the contingent semiotic and interpretive dimensions of mathematical practice, rather than on mathematics' claim to universal or fundamental truths, in order to explore not only what mathematics is, but also what it could be. Along the way, Wagner challenges conventional views that mathematical signs represent fixed, ideal entities; that mathematical cognition is a rigid transfer of inferences between formal domains; and that mathematics' exceptional consensus is due to the subject's underlying reality.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Mathematics Philosophy of mathematics

• Full title: Making and Breaking Mathematical Sense
• Author: Roi Wagner
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780691171715
• ISBN: 9780691171715
• ID: 10915900
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 546 g
• Dimensions: 245 × 164 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. January 2017

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