Mathematical Cultures

Thiscollection presents significant contributions from an international network project on mathematicalcultures, including essays from leading scholars in the history and philosophyof mathematics and mathematics education. Mathematicshas universal standards of validity. Nevertheless, there are local styles inmathematical research and teaching, and great variation in the place ofmathematics in the larger cultures that mathematical practitioners belong to.The reflections on mathematical cultures collected in this book are of interestto mathematicians, philosophers, historians, sociologists, cognitive scientistsand mathematics educators.