Semiotics and the foundations of mathematics

Mortensen, Christian Edward; Roberts, Lucien W.

doi:10.1515/semi.1997.115.1-2.1

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“…For an alternative interpretation of agency and the 'semiotic subjects' involved in mathematical activity, see Rotman's (1988Rotman's ( , 1993 formulations of 'Mathematician/Subject', 'Agent', and 'Person', and subsequent discussions by Bell (1995) and Mortensen and Roberts (1997) …”

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“…Mathematics may be viewed as a semiotic construction as, for example, in Marcus's (1997) recent examination of the metaphorical nature of Claude Levi-Strauss's symbolically expressed canonic formula of myth, and others such as Rotman (1987Rotman ( , 1988Rotman ( , 1993, Coleman (1988), Mortensen and Roberts (1997), and Thorn (1983) who argue for a semiotically orientated philosophy of mathematics. Discourse analysis of mathematical texts must therefore necessarily take into account the multisemiotic nature of its makeup.…”

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