CULTURE, KNOWLEDGE AND THE SELF: MATHEMATICS AND THE FORMATION OF NEW SOCIAL SENSIBILITIES IN THE RENAISSANCE AND MEDIEVAL ISLAM
Some decades ago, to talk about mathematics and culture would not have made too much sense. There was a time –a really long time, indeed– when mathematics was thought of as something beyond cultures. Mathematics, at least in the Western tradition, was thought to deal with eternal objects and the di...
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| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de História da Matemáticas (SBHMat)
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática |
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| Online Access: | https://www.rbhm.org.br/index.php/RBHM/article/view/300 |