Abstract
The present paper is part of a Master’s degree thesis and it aims to show how mathematics is inserted in a discursive context that constitutes subjects. For this purpose, we chose the book The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan, delimiting its context in an aspect that goes beyond Mathematics: the relation between the woman and mathematics. The referential used to understand what woman means was the researcher Judith Butler, who understands that it is a produced category. According to the discourse analysis by Michel Foucault, we bring in the analysis elements in order to understand which gender relations are established from mathematics as a discourse throughout the work and how the woman becomes the woman in a discursive set. The results of this analysis explain “self-practices” in the woman category in the face of mathematics and suggests that Telassim (Tahan's woman character) represents, regardless of the historical or cultural context, many women who are silenced in front of the scientific field.
Keywords:
The Man Who Counted; Malba Tahan; Mathematics Education; Discourse Analysis; Gender