This book utilizes philosophical deliberation to analyse the appropriateness of mathematical language in pedagogic communication of the structure of mathematics, given that its symbolicrepresentational form and its verbal - propositional form interact in natural language. The book begins by an attempt to formulate criteria for understanding and qualifying mathematical language as the means for communicating the structure of mathematics given that its form is both linguistically and cognitively ordered. Although mathematics and language have transactional and interactional purposes...

This book discusses the working strategies involved in traditional systems development life cycle (SDLC) and proposes a programme that tries to integrate prototyping life cycle (PLC) in SDLC, not just as part of the latter, but as a competing partner which must feature prominently to modify the approaches to the organization of the phases of SDLC. While SDLC is the most logical and authoritative way of developing an information system, its strict adherence to scientific discipline of development that gives it the distinctive credibility works, also, against its efficacy with regard to the...