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

Wed Mar 3 10:06:29 PST 2021

Hi all,

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, the request made me think of Andrew
Warwick, *Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics
(*University of Chicago Press, 2003). I feel like most of this book thinks
about embodied and material mathematical practices.

Cheers,
Tasha
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Tasha Schoenstein
tschoenstein at g.harvard.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science, Harvard University
S.M. Candidate, Computer Science, Harvard University
S.B. Mathematics with Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 12:54 PM Dr. Joy Lisi Rankin <drjoy at joyrankin.com>
wrote:

> 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
> <https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=415>) 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
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>> 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
>>> +++++++++++++++
>>> David C. Brock
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