Towards a Semiotics of Mathematics
Our opening reading will be Brian Rotman’s Towards a Semiotics of Mathematics, where mathematics is presented as an activity essentially done through writing. In order to understand what it means to read and write mathematics and what limitations this imposes on mathematics, Rotman introduces a semiotic model drawing from both Peircean and continental semiotics.
For this session we expect attendants to have read in advance the pages 97-111 from Rotman’s seminal paper: