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As discrete fields of inquiry, rhetoric and mathematics have long
been considered antithetical to each other. That is, if mathematics
explains or describes the phenomena it studies with certainty,
persuasion is not needed. This volume calls into question the view
that mathematics is free of rhetoric. Through nine studies of the
intersections between these two disciplines, Arguing with Numbers
shows that mathematics is in fact deeply rhetorical. Using rhetoric
as a lens to analyze mathematically based arguments in public
policy, political and economic theory, and even literature, the
essays in this volume reveal how mathematics influences the values
and beliefs with which we assess the world and make decisions and
how our worldviews influence the kinds of mathematical instruments
we construct and accept. In addition, contributors examine how
concepts of rhetoric-such as analogy and visuality-have been
employed in mathematical and scientific reasoning, including in the
theorems of mathematical physicists and the geometrical diagramming
of natural scientists. Challenging academic orthodoxy, these
scholars reject a math-equals-truth reduction in favor of a more
constructivist theory of mathematics as dynamic, evolving, and
powerfully persuasive. By bringing these disparate lines of inquiry
into conversation with one another, Arguing with Numbers provides
inspiration to students, established scholars, and anyone inside or
outside rhetorical studies who might be interested in exploring the
intersections between the two disciplines. In addition to the
editors, the contributors to this volume are Catherine Chaput,
Crystal Broch Colombini, Nathan Crick, Michael Dreher, Jeanne
Fahnestock, Andrew C. Jones, Joseph Little, and Edward Schiappa.
There is a growing awareness among researchers in the humanities
and social sciences of the rhetorical force of mathematical
discourse-whether in regard to gerrymandering, facial recognition
technologies, or racial biases in algorithmic automation. This book
proposes a novel way to engage with and understand mathematics via
a theoretical framework that highlights how math transforms the
social-material world. In this study, G. Mitchell Reyes applies
contemporary rhetorical analysis to mathematical discourse, calling
into question the commonly held view that math equals truth.
Examining mathematics in historical context, Reyes traces its
development from Plato's teaching about abstract numbers to
Euclidian geometry and the emergence of calculus and
infinitesimals, imaginary numbers, and algorithms. This history
reveals that mathematical innovation has always relied on
rhetorical practices of making meaning, such as analogy, metaphor,
and invention. Far from expressing truth hidden deep in reality,
mathematics is dynamic and evolving, shaping reality and our
experience of it. By bringing mathematics back down to the
material-social world, Reyes makes it possible for scholars of the
rhetoric and sociology of science, technology, and math to
collaborate with mathematicians themselves in order to better
understand our material world and public culture.
There is a growing awareness among researchers in the humanities
and social sciences of the rhetorical force of mathematical
discourse—whether in regard to gerrymandering, facial recognition
technologies, or racial biases in algorithmic automation. This book
proposes a novel way to engage with and understand mathematics via
a theoretical framework that highlights how math transforms the
social-material world. In this study, G. Mitchell Reyes applies
contemporary rhetorical analysis to mathematical discourse, calling
into question the commonly held view that math equals truth.
Examining mathematics in historical context, Reyes traces its
development from Plato’s teaching about abstract numbers to
Euclidian geometry and the emergence of calculus and
infinitesimals, imaginary numbers, and algorithms. This history
reveals that mathematical innovation has always relied on
rhetorical practices of making meaning, such as analogy, metaphor,
and invention. Far from expressing truth hidden deep in reality,
mathematics is dynamic and evolving, shaping reality and our
experience of it. By bringing mathematics back down to the
material-social world, Reyes makes it possible for scholars of the
rhetoric and sociology of science, technology, and math to
collaborate with mathematicians themselves in order to better
understand our material world and public culture.
As discrete fields of inquiry, rhetoric and mathematics have long
been considered antithetical to each other. That is, if mathematics
explains or describes the phenomena it studies with certainty,
persuasion is not needed. This volume calls into question the view
that mathematics is free of rhetoric. Through nine studies of the
intersections between these two disciplines, Arguing with Numbers
shows that mathematics is in fact deeply rhetorical. Using rhetoric
as a lens to analyze mathematically based arguments in public
policy, political and economic theory, and even literature, the
essays in this volume reveal how mathematics influences the values
and beliefs with which we assess the world and make decisions and
how our worldviews influence the kinds of mathematical instruments
we construct and accept. In addition, contributors examine how
concepts of rhetoric—such as analogy and visuality—have been
employed in mathematical and scientific reasoning, including in the
theorems of mathematical physicists and the geometrical diagramming
of natural scientists. Challenging academic orthodoxy, these
scholars reject a math-equals-truth reduction in favor of a more
constructivist theory of mathematics as dynamic, evolving, and
powerfully persuasive. By bringing these disparate lines of inquiry
into conversation with one another, Arguing with Numbers provides
inspiration to students, established scholars, and anyone inside or
outside rhetorical studies who might be interested in exploring the
intersections between the two disciplines. In addition to the
editors, the contributors to this volume are Catherine Chaput,
Crystal Broch Colombini, Nathan Crick, Michael Dreher, Jeanne
Fahnestock, Andrew C. Jones, Joseph Little, and Edward Schiappa.
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