Nathalie Sinclair is Distinguished University Professor at Simon Fraser University, in the Faculty of Education. She is co-editor of Mathematics and the aesthetic: New approaches to an ancient affinity and What is a mathematical concept?. She has also led the development of two multi-touch apps for arithmetic learning, called TouchCounts and TouchTimes.
Nathalie Sinclair
Distinguished University Professor, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University
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Permanence and Impermanence of Mathematical Concepts
This roundtable explores how fundamental mathematical concepts, like numbers, have evolved over time, challenging the idea of mathematics as fixed and absolute. It examines how revolutions in mathematical thinking reshape our understanding of truth, abstraction, and reality.