Inventing the Mathematician: Gender, Race, and Our Cultural Understanding of Mathematics

Considers how our ideas about mathematics shape our individual and cultural relationship to the field.

Where and how do we, as a culture, get our ideas about mathematics and about who can engage with mathematical knowledge? Sara N. Hottinger uses a cultural studies approach to address how our ideas about mathematics shape our individual and cultural relationship to the field. She considers four locations in which representations of mathematics contribute to our cultural understanding of math...