Médium 2011/2 No 27
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Digital Technology Versus Math

Translated from the French by Cadenza Academic Translations

Pages 16 to 27

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  • CHEVALIER, Jean-Yves,
2011. Digital Technology Versus Math. Médium, 2011/2 No 27, p.16-27. DOI : 10.3917/mediu.027.0016. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-medium-2011-2-page-16?lang=en.
  • Chevalier, Jean-Yves.
« Digital Technology Versus Math ». Médium, 2011/2 No 27, 2011. p.16-27. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-medium-2011-2-page-16?lang=en.
  • Chevalier, J.-Y.
(2011). Digital Technology Versus Math. Médium, No 27(2), 16-27. https://doi.org/10.3917/mediu.027.0016.

https://doi.org/10.3917/mediu.027.0016

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  • Chevalier, J.-Y.
(2011). Digital Technology Versus Math. Médium, No 27(2), 16-27. https://doi.org/10.3917/mediu.027.0016.
  • Chevalier, Jean-Yves.
« Digital Technology Versus Math ». Médium, 2011/2 No 27, 2011. p.16-27. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-medium-2011-2-page-16?lang=en.
  • CHEVALIER, Jean-Yves,
2011. Digital Technology Versus Math. Médium, 2011/2 No 27, p.16-27. DOI : 10.3917/mediu.027.0016. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-medium-2011-2-page-16?lang=en.

https://doi.org/10.3917/mediu.027.0016

Notes

  • [1]
    See the website of the French Mathematics Society: http://smf.emath.fr/content/mathematiques-et-formations-dingenieurs-par-l-carraro
  • [2]
    Claude Allègre, France-Soir, November 1999.
  • [3]
    Roland Barthes, Mythologies (Paris: Seuil, 1957), 85.
  • [4]
    Marshall McLuhan, Pour comprendre les médias: Les prolongements technologiques de l'homme (Paris: Seuil, 1968), 132.
  • [5]
    1 Chronicles 21:1, quoted by McLuhan.
  • [6]
    Régis Debray, Vie et mort de l’image: Une histoire du regard en Occident (Paris: Gallimard, 1992).
  • [7]
    Thomas Aquinas. St. Thomas Aquinas on Spiritual Creatures (De Spiritualibus Creaturis), trans. Mary C. FitzPatrick with John J. Wellmuth (Milwaukee: Marquette Press, 1949), 75 [Thomas d’Aquin, Les Créatures spirituelles: Texte latin et traduction franc?aise en vis-a?-vis, trans. Jean-Baptiste Brenet (Paris: Vrin, 2010)], 163.
  • [8]
    Daniel Bougnoux, “Le nous dessus-dessous,” Médium, no. 20-21 (2009), 452.
  • [9]
    Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Cambdridge, MA: MIT Press, 1964), 26.
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The “digital society” is a society of numbers and therefore a priori a society of mathematics. And yet, math teaching is in crisis and university lecture halls for this discipline are few and far between. We examine the paradox: the conflict of precedence between cause and effect.

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