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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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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Mathematics & science Mathematics History of mathematics

• Plný název: String Figures as Mathematics?
• Podnázev: An Anthropological Approach to String Figure-making in Oral Tradition Societies
• Autor: Eric Vandendriessche
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 392
• EAN: 9783319383941
• ISBN: 3319383949
• ID: 15194434
• Nakladatelství: Springer International Publishing AG
• Hmotnost: 6954 g
• Rozměry: 235 × 155 × 16 mm
• Datum vydání: 13. October 2016

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