The meaning of proofs : mathematics as storytelling / Gabriele Lolli ; translated by Bonnie McClellan-Broussard ; foreword by Matilde Marcolli
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2022Description: xviii, 157 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780262544269 :Subject(s): Proof theory | Mathematics -- Terminology | Communication in mathematics | Narration (Rhetoric) | Mathematics -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 511.3 L837M 2022 Online resources: ดูปกและสารบัญ (see cover and contents) Summary: 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.
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Translation of: Matematica come narrazione : raccontare la matematica.
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.
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