Cultures of Mathematics and Logic

Selected Papers from the Conference in Guangzhou, China, November 9-12, 2012
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-81053-9
Verlag: Birkhäuser

Buch, Englisch, 123 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 2175 g

Reihe: Trends in the History of Science

This book gathers the proceedings of the conference "Cultures of Mathematics and Logic," held in Guangzhou, China. The event was the third in a series of interdisciplinary, international conferences emphasizing the cultural components of philosophy of mathematics and logic. It brought together researchers from many disciplines whose work sheds new light on the diversity of mathematical and logical cultures and practices. In this context, the cultural diversity can be diachronical (different cultures in different historical periods), geographical (different cultures in different regions), or sociological in nature.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ju, Shier

Löwe, Benedikt

Müller, Thomas

Xie, Yun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Mathematik, Philosophie der Physik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Mathematische Logik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Philosophie der Mathematik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- Brendan Larvor: What are mathematical cultures?.- Benedikt Löwe: Philosophy or not? The study of cultures and practices of mathematics.- Baptiste Mélès: Abacus as a Programming Language: Computer Science and History of Mathematics.- Stig Andur Pedersen: Mathematics in Engineering and Science.- Johannes Wietzke: A Fashionable Curiosity: Claudius Ptolemy's "Desire for Knowledge" in Literary Context.- Jia-Ming Ying: Transmission and interactions among different types of geometrical argumentations: From Jesuits in China to Nam Pyong-Gil in Korea.