Mathematics played a key role in Renaissance aesthetics. Mathematics was seen as the most fundamental concept that could link nature, the human mind, and the ...
Continue Reading โRaphael’s famous painting The School of Athens includes a geometer, presumably Euclid himself, demonstrating a construction to his fascinated students. But what theorem are they ...
Continue Reading โThe way in which nature is represented depends on human choices. Consequently, public knowledge invariably results from a particular perspective. Just like the representation of ...
Continue Reading โIn this paper we sketch the history and the philosophy of statistics and probability theory and the connections to its political aspects. Knowledge of the ...
Continue Reading โThis book brings together diverse recent developments exploring philosophy of mathematics in education. The unique combination of ethnomathematics, philosophy, history, education, statistics and mathematics offers ...
Continue Reading โHow can we invent new certain knowledge in a methodical manner? This question stands at the heart of Salomon Maimon’s theory of invention. Chikurel argues ...
Continue Reading โA panoramic survey of the vast spectrum of modern and contemporary mathematics and the new philosophical possibilities they suggest. A panoramic survey of the vast ...
Continue Reading โAlgorithms are probably the most sophisticated tools that people have had at their disposal since the beginnings of human history. They have transformed science, industry, ...
Continue Reading โAnaximander was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia (in modern-day Turkey). He belonged to the Milesian school and learned ...
Continue Reading โWhat does mathematics have to do with poetry? Seemingly, nothing. Mathematics deals with abstractions while poetry with emotions. And yet, the two share something essential: ...
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