TY - JOUR
AU - Denice, Patrick
AB - Reviews 255 reach the twentieth century, philosopher- Restivo is clear, forceful, and very much on mathematicians like Russell were going target. His writing is straight and to the point, back to elementary arithmetic, treating num- like a poke in the eye. His kind of sociology bers no longer as primordial but as cases of will become all the more relevant in the years the set theory that had been developed by to come. recent mathematicians. Wittgenstein, whom Restivo follows here, emphasized that math- ematics is not about Platonic objects existing Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American nowhere in the ordinary world; it is about Education,by Noliwe Rooks. New York: a chain of human communications by means The New Press, 2020. 256 pp. $18.99 paper. of symbols that remind us of pragmatic oper- ISBN: 9781620972489. ations to carry out. Mathematics has a high PATRICK DENICE level of certainty since these operations University of Western Ontario embody the activities of thousands of mathe- pdenice@uwo.ca maticians over the centuries, creating short- cuts for how to argue from quantitative giv- Diagnoses among researchers and policy- ens to what follows from them. makers about how and why American pub- Restivo goes on to apply 
TI - Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
JO - Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews
DO - 10.1177/00943061211006085y
DA - 2021-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/cutting-school-the-segrenomics-of-american-education-rzzWxOnvae
SP - 255
EP - 257
VL - 50
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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