<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you very much, Jeff. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">David<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 3, 2021, at 9:33 AM, Jeffrey Mathias <<a href="mailto:jm2499@cornell.edu" class="">jm2499@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Depending on what you mean by embodied practices, my colleague <a href="https://ellenabrams.org/" target="_blank" class="">Ellen Abrams</a> 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 “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26375451.2020.1805934" target="_blank" class="">An Inalienable Prerogative of a Liberated Spirit: Postulating American Mathematics.</a>” British Journal for the History of Mathematics (2020): 1-21.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jeff</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 8:46 AM David C. Brock <<a href="mailto:dcb@dcbrock.net" target="_blank" class="">dcb@dcbrock.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="">Dear All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m interested particularly in the era *before* the widespread use of electronic computers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">David</div><div class=""><div class="">
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