Iconic Arithmetic Volume Iii
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| Author | : william bricken |
| Publisher | : Unary Press |
| Total Pages | : 446 |
| Release | : 2019-04-10 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781732485136 |
Arithmetic evolves. Iconic arithmetic is built from icons that look and feel like what they mean, rather than from strings of symbols that must be memorized. The book explores the formal structure of two types of postsymbolic boundary arithmetic. Ensemble arithmetic modernizes tallies to provide forms that add together by being placed together and multiply by being placed inside one another. James algebra defines the concepts and operations of arithmetic as different ways of arranging containers. Three simple axioms are sufficient. Features of iconic arithmetic include (1) a void with no representation and no properties instead of the symbol zero; (2) void-equivalent forms that can be freely deleted; (3) meaning based on existence of structure rather than truth or numerical value; (4) only one relation (containment) to represent all forms; and (5) construction and deletion to implement all transformations. Iconic forms and transformations can be represented as two and three dimensional structures that can be directly viewed, manipulated, and even inhabited. Many different spatial interactive dialects are described. The author explores this new kind of arithmetic from the perspectives of historical evolution, formal mathematics, computer science and mathematics education. The overall objective is to provide proof of principle that our current universal approach to the arithmetic of numbers is a design choice rather than a truth embedded in numbers themselves. Iconic Arithmetic recognizes that knowledge is embodied, multidimensional, sensual, simple. It helps us to transition into a postsymbolic world of interactive information.
| Author | : Gila Hanna |
| Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
| Total Pages | : 552 |
| Release | : 2023-09-05 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 2832529992 |
Modern Mathematics is constructed rigorously through proofs, based on truths, which are either axioms or previously proven theorems. Thus, it is par excellence a model of rational inquiry. Links between Cognitive Psychology and Mathematics Education have been particularly strong during the last decades. Indeed, the Enlightenment view of the rational human mind that reasons, makes decisions and solves problems based on logic and probabilities, was shaken during the second half of the twentieth century. Cognitive psychologists discovered that humans' thoughts and actions often deviate from rules imposed by strict normative theories of inference. Yet, these deviations should not be called "errors": as Cognitive Psychologists have demonstrated, these deviations may be either valid heuristics that succeed in the environments in which humans have evolved, or biases that are caused by a lack of adaptation to abstract information formats. Humans, as the cognitive psychologist and economist Herbert Simon claimed, do not usually optimize, but rather satisfice, even when solving problem. This Research Topic aims at demonstrating that these insights have had a decisive impact on Mathematics Education. We want to stress that we are concerned with the view of bounded rationality that is different from the one espoused by the heuristics-and-biases program. In Simon’s bounded rationality and its direct descendant ecological rationality, rationality is understood in terms of cognitive success in the world (correspondence) rather than in terms of conformity to content-free norms of coherence (e.g., transitivity).
| Author | : William Bricken |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2021-02-28 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781732485150 |
Volume III of this series applies the innovations of iconic arithmetic to several branches of elementary mathematics to yield new techniques and new insights that are not accessible to symbolic arithmetic. The rules of algebra are reduced to three simple patterns expressed as spatial containment relations. These patterns resurrect a discarded imaginary number that provides an additive foundation for the multiplicative i, replaces inverse operations by a single constant, and eliminates signed numbers by rendering polarity as an exponent. Postsymbolic arithmetic reduces trigonometry to reflection along a line, condenses calculus derivatives into a single generic pattern, and identifies and organizes infinite and indeterminate expressions. Other innovations include base-free logarithms, fractional polarity, bipolar numbers, and direct deletion of illusory structure introduced by typographic notation.The overall goal is to demonstrate a comprehensive formal system that can be interpreted as arithmetic but bears little resemblance to our current universally adopted symbolic arithmetic. Iconic Arithmetic provides a proof of concept that our understanding of arithmetic has been limited by the absence of formal techniques for sensory interaction with abstraction.
| Author | : Burkard Polster |
| Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2017-12-27 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1470435217 |
A Dingo Ate My Math Book presents ingenious, unusual, and beautiful nuggets of mathematics with a distinctly Australian flavor. It focuses, for example, on Australians' love of sports and gambling, and on Melbourne's iconic, mathematically inspired architecture. Written in a playful and humorous style, the book offers mathematical entertainment as well as a glimpse of Australian culture for the mathematically curious of all ages. This collection of engaging stories was extracted from the Maths Masters column that ran from 2007 to 2014 in Australia's Age newspaper. The maths masters in question are Burkard Polster and Marty Ross, two (immigrant) Aussie mathematicians, who each week would write about math in the news, providing a new look at old favorites, mathematical history, quirks of school mathematics—whatever took their fancy. All articles were written for a very general audience, with the intention of being as inviting as possible and assuming a minimum of mathematical background.
| Author | : Claudi Alsina |
| Publisher | : MAA |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2011-08-04 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 0883853523 |
An exploration of the mathematics of twenty geometric diagrams that play a crucial role in visualizing mathematical proofs. Those teaching undergraduate mathematics will find material here for problem solving sessions, as well as enrichment material for courses on proofs and mathematical reasoning.
| Author | : Burkard Polster |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2012-08-31 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1421404842 |
Mel Gibson teaching Euclidean geometry, Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins acting out Zeno's paradox, Michael Jackson proving in three different ways that 7 x 13 = 28. These are just a few of the intriguing mathematical snippets that occur in hundreds of movies. Burkard Polster and Marty Ross pored through the cinematic calculus to create this thorough and entertaining survey of the quirky, fun, and beautiful mathematics to be found on the big screen. Math Goes to the Movies is based on the authors' own collection of more than 700 mathematical movies and their many years using movie clips to inject moments of fun into their courses. With more than 200 illustrations, many of them screenshots from the movies themselves, this book provides an inviting way to explore math, featuring such movies as: • Good Will Hunting • A Beautiful Mind • Stand and Deliver • Pi • Die Hard • The Mirror Has Two Faces The authors use these iconic movies to introduce and explain important and famous mathematical ideas: higher dimensions, the golden ratio, infinity, and much more. Not all math in movies makes sense, however, and Polster and Ross talk about Hollywood's most absurd blunders and outrageous mathematical scenes. Interviews with mathematical consultants to movies round out this engaging journey into the realm of cinematic mathematics. This fascinating behind-the-scenes look at movie math shows how fun and illuminating equations can be.
| Author | : Bernie Lewin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2018-11-19 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781982930523 |
Fifty years ago, a small sparse book came out under the pretentious title Laws of Form. Its author might have once fallen in with the logical philosophers of Cambridge, including Russell and Wittgenstein. But only later, while designing primitive switching circuits for British Rail, did George Spencer Brown come upon the arithmetic underlying Boolean algebra. Laws of Form flips the reduction of mathematics to logic, revealing simple laws of being and knowing that only reflect what great mystics, East and West, have been saying all along. Enthusiastic Mathematics offers the first thorough, philosophical introduction to Laws of Form. With no presumption for logic or mathematics, the reader is delivered into its philosophical vision via a colourful journey through the history of science.
| Author | : Louis H Kauffman |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 944 |
| Release | : 2023-01-09 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 9811247447 |
Laws of Form is a seminal work in foundations of logic, mathematics and philosophy published by G Spencer-Brown in 1969. The book provides a new point of view on form and the role of distinction, markedness and the absence of distinction (the unmarked state) in the construction of any universe. A conference was held August 8-10, 2019 at the Old Library, Liverpool University, 19 Abercromby Square, L697ZN, UK to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Laws of Form and to remember George Spencer-Brown, its author. The book is a collection of papers introducing and extending Laws of Form written primarily by people who attended the conference in 2019.
| Author | : Satish C. Bhatnagar |
| Publisher | : Balboa Press |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2023-02-16 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : |
What is new in the book? Apart from its format, in brief, it has thought-provoking angles of observation and deductive conclusions on many topics, which may look ordinary or rare. Who will benefit from the book? Any lay person with an historical bent of mind on mathematical topics stands to gain from it. Both undergraduate and graduate students in history of mathematics courses would enjoy it. All reflections are independent—they are excellent bedtime reading too.
| Author | : Dorian Goldfeld |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 715 |
| Release | : 2011-12-21 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1461412609 |
Serge Lang was an iconic figure in mathematics, both for his own important work and for the indelible impact he left on the field of mathematics, on his students, and on his colleagues. Over the course of his career, Lang traversed a tremendous amount of mathematical ground. As he moved from subject to subject, he found analogies that led to important questions in such areas as number theory, arithmetic geometry, and the theory of negatively curved spaces. Lang's conjectures will keep many mathematicians occupied far into the future. In the spirit of Lang’s vast contribution to mathematics, this memorial volume contains articles by prominent mathematicians in a variety of areas of the field, namely Number Theory, Analysis, and Geometry, representing Lang’s own breadth of interest and impact. A special introduction by John Tate includes a brief and fascinating account of the Serge Lang’s life. This volume's group of 6 editors are also highly prominent mathematicians and were close to Serge Lang, both academically and personally. The volume is suitable to research mathematicians in the areas of Number Theory, Analysis, and Geometry.
