Mathematics as a Humanistic Discipline

Is Philosophy a Humanistic Discipline?

According to Bernard Williams, philosophy is a humanistic discipline essentially different from the sciences. While the sciences describe the world as it is in itself, independent of perspective, philosophy tries to make sense of ourselves and of our activities. Only the humanistic disciplines, in particular philosophy, can do this, the sciences have nothing to say about it. In this note I poin...

Postmodern View of Humanistic Mathematics

This article is an investigation of humanism in philosophy of mathematics from the point of view of postmodernism. We claim that humanistic mathematics is compatible with postmodernism which is taking over everything we have, do, or wish. Omar Khayyam, an Iranian mathematician and poet: A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilde...

Wandering About: Analogy, Ambiguity and Humanistic Mathematics

Humanizing Mathematics: The Humanistic Impression in the Course for Mathematics Teaching

Mathematics as a Tool?

I analyze the new emerging role of mathematics for extracting structure from data. This role is different from the traditional role of mathematics as a tool for other sciences that provided a theoretical framework in which experiments acquired meaning, with which the quality of data could be assessed and which could be explored with the formal methods of mathematics. The challenge for mathemati...