Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Math Cognition

Download or read book Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Math Cognition written by Marcel Danesi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-14 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology of contemporary studies from various disciplinary perspectives written by some of the world's most renowned experts in each of the areas of mathematics, neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, semiotics, education, and more. Its purpose is not to add merely to the accumulation of studies, but to show that math cognition is best approached from various disciplinary angles, with the goal of broadening the general understanding of mathematical cognition through the different theoretical threads that can be woven into an overall understanding. This volume will be of interest to mathematicians, cognitive scientists, educators of mathematics, philosophers of mathematics, semioticians, psychologists, linguists, anthropologists, and all other kinds of scholars who are interested in the nature, origin, and development of mathematical cognition.