Mathematics as Sign
Subtitle: Writing, Imagining, Counting (Writing Science)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: August 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780804736831
Subjects: History of science; Philosophy of mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Mathematics (General); Mathematics; General; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Mathematics / General; Mathematical notation; Numeration
First sentence: As the sign system whose grammar has determined the shape of Western culture's technoscientific discourse since its inception, mathematics is implicated, at a deeply linguistic level, in any form of distinctively intellectual activity.