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 — Brian Justie b1@ucla.edu PhD Student, Department of Information Studies Researcher, UCLA Labor Center
On Mar 3, 2021, at 6:37 AM, David C. Brock <dcb@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,
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On Mar 3, 2021, at 9:33 AM, Jeffrey Mathias <jm2499@cornell.edu <mailto:jm2499@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@dcbrock.net <mailto:dcb@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,
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