Mathematics and Its Ideologies (An Anthropologist's Observations)

Starting from the profound impact of Kenneth Arrow's Impossibility Theorem on the social sciences of the postwar twentieth century, this essay engages with the ways in which mathematics can be seen as a language-ideologically inflated notational system. In the mid-twentieth century, a profound...

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Main Author: Jan Blommaert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago 2020-07-01
Series:Semiotic Review
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Online Access:https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/article/view/55
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