Year: 2026
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: In this introduction, we raise the problematic distinction between practice and knowledge in occupational contexts and survey its historiography. To concretize the debate, we propose to rearticulate the problem as the study of the interaction between normative texts and occupational practices. We apply this distinction to the thematic focus of this collection, which is the mathematical practices of measurement, calculation, and evaluation. We conclude the introduction with an overview of the chapters and of some of the broader phenomena they highlight.
Authors: Senthil Babu D., Roy Wagner
Institutions: French Institute of Pondicherry, ETH Zurich
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7204932307