De Freitas E., Sinclair N., Coles A. (Eds.) What is a Mathematical Concept?

Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 298 p. — ISBN10: 1107134633.Responding to widespread interest within cultural studies and social inquiry, this book addresses the question 'what is a mathematical concept?' using a variety of vanguard theories in the humanities and posthumanities. Tapping historical, philosophical, sociological and psychological perspectives, each chapter explores the question of how mathematics comes to matter. Of interest to scholars across the usual disciplinary divides, this book tracks mathematics as a cultural activity, drawing connections with empirical practice. Unlike other books in this area, it is highly interdisciplinary, devoted to exploring the ontology of mathematics as it plays out in different contexts. This book will appeal to scholars who are interested in particular mathematical habits - creative diagramming, structural mappings, material agency, interdisciplinary coverings - that shed light on both mathematics and other disciplines. Chapters are also relevant to social sciences and humanities scholars, as each offers philosophical insight into mathematics and how we might live mathematically.Of Polyhedra and Pyjamas: Platonism and Induction in Meaning-Finitist Mathematics
Mathematical Concepts? he View from Ancient History
Notes on the Syntax and Semantics Distinction, or here Moments in the Life of the Mathematical Drawing
Concepts as Generative Devices
Bernhard Riemann’s Conceptual Mathematics and the Pedagogy of Mathematical Concepts
Deleuze and the Conceptualisable Character of Mathematical heories
Homotopy Type heory and the Vertical Unity of Concepts in Mathematics
he Perfectoid Concept: Test Case for an Absent heory
Queering Mathematical Concepts
Mathematics Concepts in the News
Concepts and Commodities in Mathematical Learning
A Relational View of Mathematical Concepts
Cultural Concepts Concretely
Ideas as Species
Inhabiting Mathematical Concepts
Making a hing of It: Some Conceptual Commentary