| 书目名称 | String Figures as Mathematics? | | 副标题 | An Anthropological A | | 编辑 | Eric Vandendriessche | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Shows how string figures appear to be the products of a mathematical activity.Is relevant for researchers in anthropology, history and philosophy of science, mathematics, and ethnomathematics.Includes | | 丛书名称 | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .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, | | 出版日期 | Book 2015 | | 关键词 | Analysing String Figure Algorithms; Analysing String Figure Procedures; Conceptualization of String Fi | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11994-6 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-38394-1 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-11994-6Series ISSN 1871-7381 Series E-ISSN 2215-1958 | | issn_series | 1871-7381 | | copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 |
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