Texter mathématique - Texting mathematics

Abstract

What does it mean to read and write mathematics? How do we read and write mathematics? What can we say about how it is done? We understand ‘reading’ and ‘writing’ broadly to include not only the interpretation and production of mathematical texts as conventionally understood (historic or contemporary, in textbooks or students’ work, etc.), but also the ephemeral texts of spoken words and gestures, the visual texts of moving or still images and, ultimately, any of the semiotic ‘traces’ we come across in doing mathematics.