The need for rigour in mathematical communication may raise nontrivial problems, when the target of this communication includes people with little mathematical background. In what follows we discuss some of these problems, and we argue how it may be possible to keep some kind of mathematical rigour also in an informal way of communicating maths.

Rigour in Communicating Maths: a Mathematical Feature or an Unnecessary Pedantry? / M. Dedò - In: Raising public awareness of mathematics / [a cura di] E. Behrends, N. Crato, J.F. Rodriguez. - [s.l] : Springer, 2012. - ISBN 978-3-642-25709-4. - pp. 339-358 (( convegno Raising the public awareness of mathematics tenutosi a Obidos nel 2010 [10.1007/978-3-642-25710-0].

Rigour in Communicating Maths: a Mathematical Feature or an Unnecessary Pedantry?

M. Dedò
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2012

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The need for rigour in mathematical communication may raise nontrivial problems, when the target of this communication includes people with little mathematical background. In what follows we discuss some of these problems, and we argue how it may be possible to keep some kind of mathematical rigour also in an informal way of communicating maths.
rigour ; mathematics ; communication
Settore MAT/04 - Matematiche Complementari
2012
European Mathematical Society
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