Normative Texts and Occupational Practices
Towards New Social Histories of Mathematics
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Beschreibung
This open access book explores the relations between normative mathematical texts, which encode various forms of measurement, calculation and reasoning, and the practices of accountants, craftspeople, artisans and other social actors. Mathematics is often divided into a theoretical, intellectual, and normative component, on the one hand, and, on the other, a practical-applied component, implemented in various labour and other social contexts. However, this division usually assumes that practice reflects the text, whereas, in reality, their relations are much more diverse. This volume explores how text and practice shape each other, complement each other, contradict each other or even ignore each other. In doing so, it opens up the problem of mathematical text and practice as a varied, multi-dimensional, cross-cultural and global-historical problem, where different contexts called for different negotiations between text and practice.
This open access book explores the relations between normative mathematical texts, which encode various forms of measurement, calculation and reasoning, and the practices of accountants, craftspeople, artisans and other social actors. Mathematics is often divided into a theoretical, intellectual, and normative component, on the one hand, and, on the other, a practical-applied component, implemented in various labour and other social contexts. However, this division usually assumes that practice reflects the text, whereas, in reality, their relations are much more diverse. This volume explores how text and practice shape each other, complement each other, contradict each other or even ignore each other. In doing so, it opens up the problem of mathematical text and practice as a varied, multi-dimensional, cross-cultural and global-historical problem, where different contexts called for different negotiations between text and practice.
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Provides a cross-cultural view on mathematical practices as a theoretical, practical and social practices This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Explores the tensions between the normative and practical aspects of mathematics in labour and other social contexts
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Senthil Babu D.
Themen in »Normative Texts and Occupational Practices«
Occupational Mathematics History of Mathematics Mathematical Practice Magic Squares Measuring Wood Pearl Value European Hydrology Weaving Notations Practical Arithmetic Vernacular Mathematics Mathematical Pedagogy Greco-Roman Measures Slavery and Mathematics Open Access Standardization of Measures