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Könyv String Figures as Mathematics? Eric Vandendriessche

String Figures as Mathematics?

An Anthropological Approach to String Figure-making in Oral Tradition Societies

Szerző: Eric Vandendriessche
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Kiadó: Springer International Publishing AG
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 10-13 napon belül
39 286 Ft
This book addresses the mathematical rationality contained in the making of string figures. It does...

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Szerző
Eric Vandendriessche
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2015
oldal
392
EAN
9783319119939
ISBN
3319119931
Enbook ID
06841738
Kiadó
Springer International Publishing AG
Súly
794
Méretek
242 x 163 x 27

Teljes leírás

This book addresses the mathematical rationality contained in the making of string figures. It does so by using interdisciplinary methods borrowed from anthropology, mathematics, history and philosophy of mathematics. The practice of string figure-making has long been carried out in many societies, and particularly in those of oral tradition. It consists in applying a succession of operations to a string (knotted into a loop), mostly using the fingers and sometimes the feet, the wrists or the mouth. This succession of operations is intended to generate a final figure. The book explores different modes of conceptualization of the practice of string figure-making and analyses various source material through these conceptual tools: it looks at research by mathematicians, as well as ethnographical publications, and personal fieldwork findings in the Chaco, Paraguay, and in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, which all give evidence of the rationality that underlies this activity. It concludes that the creation of string figures may be seen as the result of intellectual processes, involving the elaboration of algorithms, and concepts such as operation, sub-procedure, iteration, and transformation.§

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