Mathematics and gesture

• expression écrite - matière potentielle : mathematicians
• expression écrite
• exposé - matière potentielle : the subject for the better part

Mathematics and Gesture SLSA Atlanta 2009 Mathematics and gesture. An odd couple: the supreme form of disembodied thinking and its crude corporeal antithesis. If mathematics engenders forms of thought which exceed that available to speech, gesture seems an atavistic return to simian calls and signals before speech. The antithesis is puzzling. Mathematics has many affiliations -- structural, aesthetic, experiential -- with music. Music is thoroughly gestural: literally in terms of its production through the playing of instruments, but also by the sonic gestures inherent in its composition and internal dynamics.

• forms of thought
• psychoanalytic understanding of unconscious interiority
• language of sets
• internal dynamics
• arrows
• gestures
• mathematical entity
• diagrams
• sets
• mathematics
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