Mathematics as Sign: Writing, Imagining, Counting

by Brian Rotman

Book Overview

Two features of mathematics stand out: its menagerie of seemingly eternal objects (numbers, spaces, patterns, functions, categories, morphisms, graphs, and so on), and the hieroglyphics of special notations, signs, symbols, and diagrams associated with them. The author challenges the widespread belief in the extra-human origins of these objects and the understanding of mathematics as either a purely mental activity about them or a formal game of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804736847
• ISBN13: 9780804736848
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"