{"id":1592,"date":"2011-09-23T11:58:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T19:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2011-09-23T13:37:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T21:37:56","slug":"review-of-loving-and-hating-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/2011\/09\/review-of-loving-and-hating-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of &#8220;Loving and Hating Mathematics&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Loving and Hating Mathematics<\/em>\u00a0 (<a title=\"princeton\" href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/9283.html\">Princeton University Press,<\/a> 2010) is the child of two passionate scholars: a mathematician (Reuben Hersh) and a social scientist (Vera John-Steiner). Reuben Hersh has written for many articles for the <em>Intelligencer<\/em>, as well as earlier books such as <em>The Mathematical Experience<\/em>, coauthored with Davis and Marchisotto, and <em>What is Mathematics Really?<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The present book has as its expressed aim the vanquishing of four myths:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mathematicians are different from other people, lacking emotional complexity.<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics is a solitary pursuit.<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics is a young man\u2019s game.<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics is an effective filter for higher education.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>More generally, the book is a tour of mathematical life in the large, carrying with it a recommendation that design issues relating to the school-level experience of mathematics should be addressed in terms of mathematics in its entirety, and in particular the joy that its practioners take in the endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>An in-depth review, written by one of the present bloggers (Borwein) is available <a href=\"http:\/\/carma.newcastle.edu.au\/jon\/lhm.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loving and Hating Mathematics (Princeton University Press, 2010) is the child of two passionate scholars: a mathematician (Reuben Hersh) and a social scientist (Vera John-Steiner). Reuben Hersh has written for many articles for the Intelligencer, as well as earlier books such as The Mathematical Experience, coauthored with Davis and Marchisotto, and What is Mathematics Really?.<\/p>\n<p>The present book has as its expressed aim the vanquishing of four myths:<\/p>\n<p> Mathematicians are different from other people, lacking emotional complexity. Mathematics is a solitary pursuit. Mathematics is a young man\u2019s game. Mathematics is an effective filter for higher education. <\/p>\n<p>More generally, the book <\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/2011\/09\/review-of-loving-and-hating-mathematics\/\">Review of &#8220;Loving and Hating Mathematics&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}