Mathematical Cultures: The London Meetings 2012-2014

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Editorial Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Understanding the Cultural Construction of School Mathematics....Pages 9-23
Envisioning Transformations—The Practice of Topology....Pages 25-50
Creative Discomfort: The Culture of the Gelfand Seminar at Moscow University....Pages 51-70
Mathematical Culture and Mathematics Education in Hungary in the XXth Century....Pages 71-89
On the Emergence of a New Mathematical Object: An Ethnography of a Duality Transform....Pages 91-110
What Are We Like …....Pages 111-125
Mathematics as a Social Differentiating Factor: Men of Letters, Politicians and Engineers in Brazil Through the Nineteenth Century....Pages 127-138
“The End of Proof”? The Integration of Different Mathematical Cultures as Experimental Mathematics Comes of Age....Pages 139-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Diversity in Proof Appraisal....Pages 163-179
What Would the Mathematics Curriculum Look Like if Instead of Concepts and Techniques, Values Were the Focus?....Pages 181-188
Mathematics and Values....Pages 189-214
Purity as a Value in the German-Speaking Area....Pages 215-234
Values in Caring for Proof....Pages 235-257
An Empirical Approach to the Mathematical Values of Problem Choice and Argumentation....Pages 259-269
The Notion of Fit as a Mathematical Value....Pages 271-285
Mathematical Pull....Pages 287-302
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Mathematics and First Nations in Western Canada: From Cultural Destruction to a Re-Awakening of Mathematical Reflections....Pages 305-328
Remunerative Combinatorics: Mathematicians and Their Sponsors in the Mid-Twentieth Century....Pages 329-346
Calling a Spade a Spade: Mathematics in the New Pattern of Division of Labour....Pages 347-374
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Mathematics and Mathematical Cultures in Fiction: The Case of Catherine Shaw....Pages 375-385
Morality and Mathematics....Pages 387-408
The Great Gibberish—Mathematics in Western Popular Culture....Pages 409-437
Is Mathematics an Issue of General Education?....Pages 439-460