“…( Barbeau, 1990) For the past decade there has been increased discussion and research about images of mathematics and mathematicians (Furinghetti, 1993;Henrion, 1997;Lim and Ernest, 1998;Rock and Shaw, 2000) as well as what has been referred to as the "mathematics' image problem" (Howson and Kahane, 1990;Malkevitch, 1989Malkevitch, , 1997. Furinghetti (1993, p. 34) points out that mathematics "is a discipline that enjoys a peculiar property: it may be loved or hated, understood or misunderstood, but everybody has some mental image of it."…”