Mathematical Cultures

Introduction.- Understanding the culturalconstruction of school mathematics.- Envisioning Transformations - The Practiceof Topology.- Creative Discomfort: The Culture of the Gelfand Seminar at MoscowUniversity.- Mathematical Culture and Mathematics Education in Hungary in theXXth Century.- On the Emergence of a New Mathematical Object: an Ethnography ofa Duality Transform.- What are we like... .- Mathematics as a socialdifferentiating factor: men of letters, politicians and engineers in Brazil throughthe Nineteenth Century.- "The End of Proof"? The integration of differentmathematical cultures as experimental mathematics comes of age.- Diversity inProof Appraisal.- What would the mathematics curriculum look like if instead ofconcepts and techniques, values were the focus? .- Mathematics and Values.- Purityas a Value in the German-speaking area.- Values in Caring for Proof.- Anempirical approach to the mathematical values of problem choice andargumentation.- The Notion of Fitas a Mathematical Value.- Mathematical Pull.-Mathematics and First Nations in Western Canada: from cultural destruction to are-awakening of mathematical reflections.- Remunerative Combinatorics:Mathematicians and their Sponsors in the Mid-Twentieth Century.- Calling aSpade a Spade: Mathematics in the New Pattern of Division of Labour.- Mathematicsand mathematical cultures in fiction: the case of Catherine Shaw.- Morality andMathematics.- The Great Gibberish - Mathematics in Western Popular Culture.- IsMathematics an issue of general education?.