Between Dead-ends and Meatballs: Mathematical Practice as Embodied and Interactionally Accomplished
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Abstract
This paper explores the social collaborative nature of mathematical work through a critical examination of the interactions between two professional mathematicians engaged in an afternoon of reading, writing, and mathematical problem solving.Drawing on Goodwin's (2003) conceptualization of the semiotic body in its environment, I offer an account of mathematics as an embodied practice that is accomplished through social interaction, the recruitment of tools, the creation of artifacts, and a coordinated assemblage of these tools, artifacts, and actors.Focusing on excerpts of interactions and events from an afternoon spent with mathematicians Natalie and Usman, the analysis presented here seeks to unsettle normative understandings of mathematics as a non-material, abstract practice, instead making a thirdworld feminist case for the embodied, concrete, social-relational nature of mathematical knowledge production.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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