Review of What Is A Mathematical Concept?

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Abstract

This is a review of What is a Mathematical Concept? edited by Elizabeth de Freitas, Nathalie Sinclair, and Alf Coles (Cambridge University Press, 2017). In this collection of sixteen chapters, philosophers, educationalists, historians of mathematics, a cognitive scientist, and a mathematician consider, problematise, historicise, contextualise, and destabilise the terms ‘mathematical’ and ‘concept’. The contributors come from many disciplines, but the editors are all in mathematics education, which gives the whole volume a disciplinary centre of gravity. The editors set out to explore and reclaim the canonical question ‘what is a mathematical concept?’ from the philosophy of mathematics. This review comments on each paper in the collection.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)309-322
Number of pages14
JournalJournal of Humanistic Mathematics
Volume9
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2019

Keywords

  • Education
  • Mathematics

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