Autor/-in: Michael Friedman

Michael Friedman is a historian of mathematics and a senior lecturer at the Tel Aviv University. The focus of his research is how material, visual and symbolical knowledge and practices in mathematics interact with each other. More specifically, his research examines how material practices (folding, weaving, braiding, knotting, as well as three-dimensional models) prompt symbolical mathematical knowledge. Recent publications: A History of Folding in Mathematics. Mathematizing the Margins (Birkhäuser, 2018).