The anthropology of meaning

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 39-65

  Radford, Luis ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activity; Cultural semiotics; Epistemology; Husserl; Mathematical objects; Meaning; Ontology; Peirce; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645703762     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-006-7136-7     Document Type: Review

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