A matter of translation

Gert Kadunz

pp. 127-138

in: Norma Presmeg, Luis Radford, Wolff-Michael Roth, Gert Kadunz (eds), Signs of signification, Berlin, Springer, 2018

Abstract

This chapter concentrates on the often formulated question about the ontological status of the concepts of mathematics. As an alternative to philosophical approaches this paper uses arguments from linguistics and semiotics. Through comparing mathematics in school and mathematics at the university we are confronting the question of how to translate between the two of them. The result of such deliberations is that at least the assumption of a Platonistic view on mathematical concepts is not fruitful.

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