Mathematical Variables as Indigenous Concepts
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Mathematical Variables as Indigenous Concepts
This paper explores the semiotic status of algebraic variables. To do that we build on a structuralist and post-structuralist train of thought going from Mauss and Lévi-Strauss to Baudrillard and Derrida. We import these authors’ semiotic thinking from the register of indigenous concepts (such as mana), and apply it to the register of algebra via a concrete case study of generating functions. T...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0269-8595,1469-9281
DOI: 10.1080/02698590902843351