Lightning and series - event and thunder

Article Abstract:

The interplay and separation of being, time and technology is explored in three historical settings, namely, Greek, early modern, and modern, with the argument that over the course of three millennia, mathematics learned to measure language itself. In an era of computational technology, machines rather than humans take on god-like qualities, resulting in a world where thunder and lightning are no longer experienced simply as events, but can be predicted and simulated by machines.

Evaluation, Greek history

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Thinking colors and/or machines

Article Abstract:

A discussion raises the question of what consequences the global conquest of computers has for the humanities. It queries why parts of computer science forfeited their mathematical rigor and instead became indebted to a philosophy that was able to provide a concept of tools, and articulates what caused philosophers to draw a distinction between humans and machines, or more precisely, between humans and technological media.

Germany, Analysis, Science, Science history, Philosophy of technology

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Number and numeral

Article Abstract:

A study argues that numbers and numerals have not always been separate, and historically, mathematics proper only developed "in cultures in which numbers were present as numerals". This development entailed the transformation of numbers from signifiers into signifieds and rested on the emergence of storage and transmission media known as "the media of mathematics".

Numerals, Mathematics history

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