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Article Summary
Mathematicians' Religious Affiliations and Professional Practices: The Case of Bo PDF
Spring 2003, Volume 13, Number 1, Pages 41-45
Abstract:
Bo’s case is the third of three case studies exploring relationships between
the domains of religious belief and mathematical practice among university
research professors. As a Buddhist, Bo’s mathematics and religious views are
integrated in a surprising epistemology. His epistemology and other relationships
are contrasted by those presented in previous case studies of a Jewish professor
and a Christian professor, at the same university. While the previous cases
highlighted the transfer of methods of practice across domains and the need
to reconcile potentially conflicting aspects of the two domains, Bo’s case
reminds educators that each student holds her own universe of thought and that
mathematics plays a prominent role in developing that universe; or is it “the
way of knowing the universe?”
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