Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Meaning of ProofsCondition: NewSubtitle: Mathematics as StorytellingEAN: 9780262544269ISBN: 9780262544269Publisher: MIT PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/27/2022Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 203mmItem Length: 133mmAuthor: Bonnie Mcclellan-Broussard, Gabriele LolliGenre: Science Nature & MathDescription: Why mathematics is not merely formulaic: an argument that to write a mathematical proof is tantamount to inventing a story.In The Meaning of Proofs, mathematician Gabriele Lolli argues that to write a mathematical proof is tantamount to inventing a story. Lolli offers not instructions for how to write mathematical proofs, but a philosophical and poetic reflection on mathematical proofs as narrative. Mathematics, imprisoned within its symbols and images, Lolli writes, says nothing if its meaning is not narrated in a story. The minute mathematicians open their mouths to explain something—the meaning of x, how to find y—they are framing a narrative. Every proof is the story of an adventure, writes Lolli, a journey into an unknown land to open a new, connected route; once the road is open, we correct it, expand it. Just as fairy tales offer a narrative structure in which new characters can be inserted into recurring forms of the genre in original ways, in mathematics, each new abstract concept is the protagonist of a different theory supported by the general techniques of mathematical reasoning. In ancient Greece, there was more than an analogy between literature and mathematics, there was direct influence. Euclid’s proofs have roots in poetry and rhetoric. Mathematics, Lolli asserts, is not the mere manipulation of formulas.Release Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Meaning of Proofs
Title: The Meaning of Proofs
Subtitle: Mathematics as Storytelling
EAN: 9780262544269
ISBN: 9780262544269
Release Date: 09/27/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Meaning of Proofs : Mathematics As Storytelling
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: History & Philosophy, General
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 7.5 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Subject Area: Mathematics
Author: Gabriele. Lolli
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
