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Description

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 manipulating symbols. Instead, he argues that mathematics is a vast and unique man-made imagination machine controlled by writing. Mathematics as Sign addresses both aspects mental and linguistic of this machine. The opening essay, Toward a Semiotics of Mathematics (long acknowledged as a seminal contribution to its field), sets out the author s underlying model. According to this model, doing mathematics constitutes a kind of waking dream or thought experiment in which a proxy of the self is propelled around imagined worlds that are conjured into intersubjective being through signs.

Author Biography:

Brian Rotman teaches in the Division of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Ad Infinitum . . . The Ghost in Turing's Machine: Taking God Out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back In: An Essay in Corporeal Semiotics (Stanford, 1993) and Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero (Stanford paperback, 1993).
Release date Australia
August 1st, 2000
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Pages
184
Dimensions
140x217x13
ISBN-13
9780804736848
Product ID
5853948

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