Is Mathematical Truth Time-Dependent

Grabiner, Judith V.

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“…For history of mathematics as history tries to see the how mathematics of the past was different from the mathematics of today. With that, it treats mathematics as a product of culture and, as Judith Grabiner (1974) has put it, as "time dependent." This means one cannot assume a modern mathematician should be the final arbiter in judging what was said or done in the mathematical past.…”

Section: History Within Math and Science Teaching: A Historical Issuementioning

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Reflections on History of Mathematics

Radford

2014

Mathematics &Amp; Mathematics Education: Searching for Common Ground

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The specialization that mathematics education research has undergone in the past decades has led to a sense of division and disconnection between mathematicians and mathematics education researchers. This chapter deals with the possibilities that the history of mathematics may afford to reduce the divide. Although the recourse to the history of mathematics is an interesting prospect, it unavoidably induces new problems. A range of tensions becomes visible among the involved communities of teachers, historians of mathematics, mathematics education researchers, and mathematicians. Some of these tensions are investigated in this chapter, in particular in the case of a hermeneutic reading of original sources. The tensions that the history of mathematics induces, it is argued, may function as a way to foster a critical reflection and dialogue to contribute to a rich multi-layered understanding of mathematics, its history, and its teaching and learning.

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Section: History Within Math and Science Teaching: A Historical Issuementioning

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Reflections on History of Mathematics

Radford

2014

Mathematics &Amp; Mathematics Education: Searching for Common Ground

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“…For rigor in quantum theory see [12], [14], and in engineering see [16], [17]. 5 Perspectives on origins and ramifications of using proofs as evidence are given by [15], [21]. from conclusions.…”

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Errors and Corrections in Mathematics Literature

Grcar¹

2013

Notices Amer. Math. Soc.

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“…There are explicit discussions in the literature: Judy Grabiner's "Is mathematical truth time-dependent?" (Grabiner 1974) and Imre Lakatos' Proofs and Refutations (Lakatos 1976), for example. The former is actually a discussion of why a major change came about, as the author sees it, from symbolic manipulation to a style of mathematics that puts rigor first.…”

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Anxiety and Abstraction in Nineteenth-Century Mathematics

Gray

2004

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The first part of this paper surveys the current literature in the history of nineteenth-century mathematics in order to show that the question “Did the increasing abstraction of mathematics lead to a sense of anxiety?” is a new and valid question. I argue that the mathematics of the nineteenth century is marked by a growing appreciation of error leading to a note of anxiety, hesitant at first but persistent by 1900. This mounting disquiet about so many aspects of mathematics after 1850 is seldom discussed. The second part explores the issue of anxiety in mathematical life through an interesting account of an address made by a mathematician in 1911, Oscar Perron. The third and final part ventures some conclusions about the value of anxiety as a question for historians of mathematics to pursue.

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Is Mathematical Truth Time-Dependent

Cited by 35 publications

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Reflections on History of Mathematics

Reflections on History of Mathematics

Errors and Corrections in Mathematics Literature

Anxiety and Abstraction in Nineteenth-Century Mathematics

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