PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2018
San Diego, California
Computing as a Mathematical Disciplinary Practice
Page: 458
The role of computation continues to be prominent in the STEM fields, and the activity of computing has become an important mathematical disciplinary practice. Given the importance of computational fluency in science and mathematics, we are curious about the nature of such activity in mathematics. To study this, we interviewed six mathematicians about the role of computation in their work, and we identified several aspects of computation that sheds light on the nature of computing as a mathematical disciplinary practice. In this paper, we present examples and applications of computation for these mathematicians, highlight types of computation, provide specific examples of computation in their work, and emphasize how computation relates to mathematics in particular.