What Is a Mathematical Concept? (Hardcover)

Introduction; Part I: 1. Of polyhedra and pyjamas: platonism and induction in meaning-finitist mathematics Michael J. Barany; 2. Mathematical concepts? The view from ancient history Reviel Netz; Part II: 3. On treating mathematical drawings as artworks Juliette Kennedy; 4. Concepts as generative devices Elizabeth de Freitas and Nathalie Sinclair; Part III: 5. Bernhard Riemann's conceptual mathematics and pedagogy of mathematical concepts Arkady Plotnitsky; 6. Deleuze and the conceptualizable character of mathematical theories Simon Duffy; Part IV: 7. The vertical unity of the concept of space David Corfield; 8. The perfectoid concept: test case for an absent theory Michael Harris; Part V: 9. Queering mathematical concepts Heather Mendick; 10. Mathematics concepts in the news Richard Barwell and Yasmine Abtahi; 11. Concepts and commodities in mathematical learning Tony Brown; Part VI: 12. A relational view of mathematical concepts Alf Coles; 13. Cultural concepts concretely Wolff-Michael Roth; Part VII: 14. Ideas as species Brent Davis; 15. Inhabiting mathematical concepts Ricardo Nemirovsky; Afterword. Making a thing of it: some conceptual commentary David Pimm; Index.