[SIGCIS-Members] Material and embodied practices of people doing mathematics, symbolic logic, and calculation

[Brian Justie]

Hi David, 

Matthew Jones’ Reckoning With Matter is brilliant on exactly these issues.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo24836963.html <https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo24836963.html>

Be well, 
Brian

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Brian Justie
b1 at ucla.edu 
PhD Student, Department of Information Studies
Researcher, UCLA Labor Center



> On Mar 3, 2021, at 6:37 AM, David C. Brock <dcb at dcbrock.net> wrote:
> 
> Thank you very much, Jeff. 
> 
> I guess I’m thinking of the kinds of things you would see and hear people doing as they were “doing” mathematics, symbolic logic, and calculation.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> David
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>> On Mar 3, 2021, at 9:33 AM, Jeffrey Mathias <jm2499 at cornell.edu <mailto:jm2499 at cornell.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> Depending on what you mean by embodied practices, my colleague Ellen Abrams <https://ellenabrams.org/> just finished a great dissertation on masculinity and American mathematics in the first half of the 20th c. that fits this bill. See her article “An Inalienable Prerogative of a Liberated Spirit: Postulating American Mathematics. <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26375451.2020.1805934>” British Journal for the History of Mathematics (2020): 1-21.
>> 
>> Jeff
>> 
>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 8:46 AM David C. Brock <dcb at dcbrock.net <mailto:dcb at dcbrock.net>> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>> 
>> I’m wondering if you could point me to some references that treat the material and embodied practices — like writing, reading, publishing, lecturing — of people doing mathematics, symbolic logic, and calculation.
>> 
>> I’m interested particularly in the era *before* the widespread use of electronic computers.
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> David
>> +++++++++++++++
>> David C. Brock
>> dcb at dcbrock.net <mailto:dcb at dcbrock.net>
>> 40 Russell Street, Greenfield, MA 01301 
>> Mobile: 413-522-3578 
>> Skype: dcbrock 
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