Number as Inventive Frontier: Equivalence, Accounting, Calculation

该奖项为将在约翰霍普金斯大学举办的一个国际研讨会提供部分支持，该研讨会将讨论世界各地数字不断变化的作用和想法。越来越多的证据表明，量化和文化之间的旧区别正在被全球化世界不同地方的社会实践所打破。新兴的流行和专业求助于数字并不一定是迈向标准数学抽象的一步。它可能更像是一种本地语言，语义、方言和翻译都在迅速变化。这个以人类学为基础的社会科学研讨会将首次汇集一批跨学科的学者，通过实证研究和批判性反思来研究数字。参加者将来自巴西、法国、英国和美国。他们的研究横跨中国，泰国，巴基斯坦。西非和南部非洲、加勒比地区、也门和西方（包括正式和非正式环境中的当前和历史数字实践）。为期三天的研讨会形式旨在通过三个不同的主题对数字现象进行广泛而严格的调查：等值、核算和计算。每一位专家都被招募来介绍其中一个主题，而报告员的总结和最后一次会议则讨论了趋同、差距和智力挑战。为了优化研讨会之前的交流，将预先分发一份指导文件，并建立一个网站，以便进行交流、张贴相关来源、提前提交文件和进行持续讨论。结果将是一个集体编辑的出版物，分析了国家和国际生活中围绕数字的概念和实践。

This award provides partial support for an international workshop, to be held at Johns Hopkins University, on the changing roles of, and ideas about, numbers around the world. Evidence is mounting that older distinctions between quantification and culture are being breached by social practices in varied locations in the globalized world. The burgeoning popular and professional recourse to numbers is not necessarily a step towards standard mathematical abstraction. It may work more like a vernacular language, with rapidly changing semantics, dialects and translations. This anthropology-based, social science workshop will bring together for the first time an interdisciplinary array of scholars studying number through empirical research and critical reflection. Participants will come from Brazil, France, England and the United States. Their research spans China, Thailand, Pakistan. West and Southern Africa, the Caribbean, Yemen and the West (to include current and historical number practices in formal and informal settings).The three-day workshop format aims for a broad yet rigorous investigation of number phenomena by working on three distinct themes: equivalence, accounting, and calculation. Each panelist has been recruited to present on one of these themes, while rapporteurs' summaries and the final session address convergences, gaps, and intellectual challenges. To optimise interchange in advance of the workshop, a orienting paper will be precirculated and a website set up to allow interchange, posting of relevant sources, submission of papers in advance and ongoing discussion. The outcome will be a collective edited publication that analyzes the concepts and practices surrounding numbers in national and international life..