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

[Dr. Joy Lisi Rankin]

Hello David and all,

Adding my recommendation for: Deborah Harkness, The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (New Haven: Yale UP, 2007). The whole book is excellent; in terms of your particular interest, David, chapter three addresses mathematics and instrumentation, and chapter five addresses “reading, writing, and doing science” through close reading of prison notebooks.

Regards,
Joy

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On March 3, 2021 at 10:13:38 AM, Leif Weatherby (leif.weatherby at nyu.edu) wrote:

Hi All, 
I'd just add in the vein of Brian's and Sam's suggestions that Brian Rotman's work (especially Mathematics as Sign) carves out a position distinct from formalism, intuitionism, and Platonism, which he calls the "semiotic" account of mathematics, and which is explicitly about "scratching notes on paper" and other material practices of doing math. If people know of follow-up work to his, I would be very interested, I have found him very compelling to read. 
Best, 
Leif

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 10:10 AM Sam Kellogg <samkellogg at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello David,

I highly recommend Juliette Kennedy's work on mathematical drawing on this point—this essay in particular discusses drafting, scratch notes, drawing at the blackboard, etc.

Kennedy, Juliette. “Notes on the Syntax and Semantics Distinction, or Three Moments in the Life of the Mathematical Drawing.” In What Is a Mathematical Concept?, edited by Alf Coles, Elizabeth de Freitas, and Nathalie Sinclair, 55–75. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/what-is-a-mathematical-concept/notes-on-the-syntax-and-semantics-distinction-or-three-moments-in-the-life-of-the-mathematical-drawing/95FC242F34EBC88DC3D6749A2E4A6F31.

Best,
Sam

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 8:46 AM David C. Brock <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
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