Arguing with Numbers: The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics: 16 (RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric) - Hardcover

Wynn, James And G. Mitchell Reyes, Eds.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0271088818 ISBN 13: 9780271088815

Publisher: Penn State University Press, 2021

Synopsis

As discrete fields of inquiry, rhetoric and mathematics have long been considered antithetical to each other. That is, if mathematics explains or describes the phenomena it studies with certainty, persuasion is not needed. This volume calls into question the view that mathematics is free of rhetoric.

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About the Authors

James Wynn is Associate Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Citizen Science in the Digital Age: Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement and Evolution by the Numbers: The Origins of Mathematical Argument in Biology.

G. Mitchell Reyes is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies at Lewis and Clark College. He is coeditor of Global Memoryscapes: Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0271088818
• ISBN 13: 9780271088815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304