Crises and incompleteness, Mathematical Multi-stories
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1981-1322.2016v11nespp162Abstract
This paper considers episodes of mathematical crisis, and following the poetry verses of the Iliad and their narrations of crises, addresses the understanding of mathematical concepts under different points of view. From there, this paper questions the mathematical approach as a single and linear history, and argues for the multi-story approach, ie the coexistence of even conflicting reconstructions, considering that each reconstruction brings, beyond historical and mathematical concepts from the time considered, the views prevailing in the space-time of the report. All these multi-stories expand the possibilities of understandings of concepts because they bring light to a network of relationships that participate in the mathematical formulations and concepts.
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