Numbers, Infinity, and Reality: An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Philosophy of Mathematics Course – References, Acknowledgments, and About the Authors

References

Alexander, Amir. 2006. Tragic Mathematics: Romantic Narratives and the Refounding of Mathematics in the Early Nineteenth Century. Isis 97: 714–726. DOI: 10.1086/509952.

Benacerraf, Paul. 1965. What Numbers Could Not Be. Philosophical Review 74: 47–73. Reprinted in Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings, edited by Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam, 272–294. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Greenberg, Marvin. 2008. Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries: Development and History. 4th ed. New York: W.H. Freeman & Co.

Wertheim, Margaret. 2009. The Beautiful Math of Coral. TEDEd TED Talk Lessons. 

Williams, Talithia. 2014. Own Your Body’s Data. TEDxClaremont Colleges.

Acknowledgments

This course could not have succeeded without the fantastic student cohorts we had in Winter 2019 and Spring 2021. We also gratefully acknowledge the support from Converse University’s Nisbet Honors Program as well as a High-Impact Practices Fellowship Grant from Converse. And we are indebted to the editors and two anonymous referees for their diligence and guidance.

About the Authors

Kevin DeLapp is the Fleming Professor of Philosophy at Converse University. He teaches across the philosophy curriculum, and his primary fields of scholarship are classical Chinese philosophy and metaethics.

Jessica Sorrells is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Converse University. Her research areas include mathematical modeling of DNA self-assembly and voting theory.