ANTHROPOLOGY OF MATHEMATICS : INHERENT CULTURE OF NATURE

Abstracts

This discussion focuses on ethnolinguistic and ethnohistorical description in mathematics and geometry as they are formed by our human intellect and also how they in turn shape ethological practice in, for example, trade, industry, science, and government. The structuralist and philosophical views of Levi-Strauss are fundamental to this discussion.

The central focus of this discussion would be to draw a parallel between our search for essence and for certainty seen in the development of philosophy and religion and as it is also seen in prior and current development of mathematical invention. An investigation of this in traditional folk culture knowledge in myth and metaphysics is seen as a focal point for this ethnohistory.

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