“A Young Man’s Game”: Youth, Gender, Play, and Power in the Personae of Mid-Twentieth-Century Global Mathematics

Bárány, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49606-7_2

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“…Noteworthy contributions includeBarany (2021) andRittberg et al (2020).4 Dutilh Novaes employs the abc case to go beyond what her Prover-Skeptic model covers: she discusses who counts as relevant expert, which is a stage 2 question. This is an enrichment of the Prover-Skeptic model and a step towards the kind of thick epistemology we are arguing for in this paper.…”

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On the Epistemological Relevance of Social Power and Justice in Mathematics

Hunsicker

Rittberg

2022

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In this paper we argue that questions about which mathematical ideas mathematicians are exposed to and choose to pay attention to are epistemologically relevant and entangled with power dynamics and social justice concerns. There is a considerable body of literature that discusses the dissemination and uptake of ideas as social justice issues. We argue that these insights are also relevant for the epistemology of mathematics. We make this visible by a journalistic exploration of relevant cases and embed our insights into the larger question how mathematical ideas are taken up in mathematical practices. We argue that epistemologies of mathematics ought to account for questions of exposure to and choice of attention to mathematical ideas, and remark on the political relevance of such epistemologies.

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