Making and Breaking Mathematical Sense : Histories and Philosophies of Mathematical Practice / / Roi Wagner
| Making and Breaking Mathematical Sense : Histories and Philosophies of Mathematical Practice / / Roi Wagner |
| Autore | Wagner Roi |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 pages) |
| Disciplina | 510.1 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics - Philosophy - History
Mathematics - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
History
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Benedetto
Black-Scholes formula Eugene Wigner Friedrich W.J. Schelling George Lakoff Gilles Deleuze Hermann Cohen Hilary Putnam Johann G. Fichte Logic of Sensation Mark Steiner Rafael Nez Stanislas Dehaene Vincent Walsh Water J. Freeman III abbaco algebra arithmetic authority cognitive theory combinatorics conceptual freedom constraints economy gender role stereotypes generating functions geometry inferences infinities infinity mathematical cognition mathematical concepts mathematical cultures mathematical domains mathematical entities mathematical evolution mathematical interpretation mathematical language mathematical metaphor mathematical norms mathematical objects mathematical practice mathematical signs mathematical standards mathematical statements mathematics natural order natural sciences nature negative numbers number sense option pricing philosophy of mathematics reality reason relevance semiosis sexuality stable marriage problem |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; What Philosophy of Mathematics Is Today; What Else Philosophy of Mathematics Can Be; A Vignette: Option Pricing and the Black-Scholes Formula; Outline of This Book; Chapter 1: Histories of Philosophies of Mathematics; History 1: On What There Is, Which Is a Tension between Natural Order and Conceptual Freedom; History 2: The Kantian Matrix, Which Grants Mathematics a Constitutive Intermediary Epistemological Position; History 3: Monster Barring, Monster Taming, and Living with Mathematical Monsters.
History 4: Authority, or Who Gets to Decide What Mathematics Is AboutThe "Yes, Please!" Philosophy of Mathematics; Chapter 2: The New Entities of Abbacus and Renaissance Algebra; Abbacus and Renaissance Algebraists; The Emergence of the Sign of the Unknown; First Intermediary Reflection; The Arithmetic of Debited Values; Second Intermediary Reflection; False and Sophistic Entities; Final Reflection and Conclusion; Chapter 3: A Constraints-Based Philosophy of Mathematical Practice; Dismotivation; The Analytic A Posteriori; Consensus; Interpretation; Reality; Constraints; Relevance; Conclusion. Chapter 4: Two Case Studies of Semiosis in MathematicsAmbiguous Variables in Generating Functions; Between Formal Interpretations; Models and Applications; Openness to Interpretation; Gendered Signs in a Combinatorial Problem; The Problem; Gender Role Stereotypes and Mathematical Results; Mathematical Language and Its Reality; The Forking Paths of Mathematical Language; Chapter 5: Mathematics and Cognition; The Number Sense; Mathematical Metaphors; Some Challenges to the Theory of Mathematical Metaphors; Best Fit for Whom?; What Is a Conceptual Domain?; In Which Direction Does the Theory Go? So How Should We Think about Mathematical Metaphors?An Alternative Neural Picture; Another Vision of Mathematical Cognition; From Diagrams to Haptic Vision; Haptic Vision in Practice; Chapter 6: Mathematical Metaphors Gone Wild; What Passes between Algebra and Geometry; Piero della Francesca (Italy, Fifteenth Century); Omar Khayyam (Central Asia, Eleventh Century); Rene Descartes (France, Seventeenth Century); Rafael Bombelli (Italy, Sixteenth Century); Conclusion; A Garden of Infinities; Limits; Infinitesimals and Actual Infinities; Chapter 7: Making a World, Mathematically; Fichte. SchellingHermann Cohen; The Unreasonable Applicability of Mathematics; Bibliography; Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154298703321 |
Wagner Roi
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| Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2017] | ||
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Scientific Reasoning in Science Education: From Global Measures to Fine-Grained Descriptions of Students’ Competencies
| Scientific Reasoning in Science Education: From Global Measures to Fine-Grained Descriptions of Students’ Competencies |
| Autore | Krell Moritz |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Soggetto topico |
Education
History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
abductive reasoning
anomalous data argumentation assessment Assessment of Biological Reasoning balance of nature metaphor biological reasoning chemical education chemistry cognition cognitive development controversial science issues cross-lagged panel data reasoning diagnostic competencies drawings earthquakes epistemic cognition explanations individual differences item difficulty item features justifications latent class analysis longitudinal study model application model construction modeling modeling competence modelling competence models models and modeling n/a nature of science number sense numerical cognition person-centered statistical analyses philosophy of science pre-service teachers preservice teachers primary education professional knowledge Quality Talk reasoning science communication science discussions science education science teacher education scientific inquiry scientific reasoning scientific reasoning skills self-efficacy societally denied science socioscientific issues statistics education students' difficulties teacher education three-tiered assessment |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | Scientific Reasoning in Science Education |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910580212103321 |
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| Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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