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Semiotic fiddling while a digital Rome burns “So to summarise, according to the citation count, in order of descent, the authors are listening to themselves, dead philosophers, other specialists in semiotic work in mathematics education research, other mathematics education research researchers and then just occasionally to social scientists but almost never to other . . . → Read More: Semiotic fiddling while a digital Rome burns Richard C. Brown, Are Science and Mathematics Socially Constructed?: A Mathematician Encounters Postmodern Interpretations of Science, World Scientific, 2009. In this book, Brown recounts the rise of what is now known as the “postmodern interpretations of science” (PIS) or “sociology of scientific knowledge” (SSK) movement. In addition to pioneers Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn (the . . . → Read More: Are science and mathematics socially constructed? Prof. Jonathan M. Borwein of the University of Newcastle in Australia (one of the present bloggers) will participate in a panel discussion at the World Science Festival, to be held on 3 Jun 2011 7:00pm in the Tishman Auditorium at the New School, 66 W 12th Street, New York City, USA. Other panelists are Keith . . . → Read More: Borwein to participate in World Science Festival panel [Earlier version posted 6 Feb 2010] Introduction Question: What mathematical discovery more than 1500 years ago: Is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, single discovery in the field of mathematics? Involved three subtle ideas that evaded the greatest minds of antiquity, even including geniuses such as Archimedes? Was fiercely resisted in Europe for . . . → Read More: The Greatest Mathematical Discovery? |
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