Re: Old paper on math differences across countries

Nice paper, Paul.

Along similar lines, you might find the paper "What is an Equation?"
interesting, including Chaucer, internationalization and decidabiliy.

http://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~smwatt/pub/reprints/2012-synasc-equations.pdf

Stephen



On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 4:27 PM Paul Libbrecht <paul@hoplahup.net> wrote:

> For the sake of completeness: the researchgate url shows a wrong author
> (Erica Melis has passed away so she can’t complain). A version with a
> fully-accessible preprint is here
> <https://hoplahup.net/paul_pubs/Multi-Culti-AI-Society.html>.
>
> The link at the publisher is this one
> <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-009-0215-4>; the volume
> <https://link.springer.com/journal/146/volumes-and-issues/24-3> has other
> interesting articules in the direction.
>
> Paul
>
> On 25 Jan 2023, at 21:21, Neil Soiffer wrote:
>
> I was recently reminded of a 2009 paper that discussed
> internationalization (with a focus on ActiveMath): Culturally adapted
> mathematics education with ActiveMath
> <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225449328_Culturally_adapted_mathematics_education_with_ActiveMath>.
> It focuses more on course generation than on math notation, but it does
> have a number of notational examples in the early sections that might be
> useful to people trying to understand what is different in different
> countries.
>
>     Neil
>
>