Numbers and the Making of Us Counting and the Course of Human Cultures |
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| Author:
| Everett, Caleb |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-97918-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2017 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $22.00USD $37.00 |
Book Description:
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Number concepts are a human invention developed and refined over millennia. They allow us to grasp quantities precisely: recent research shows that most specific quantities are not perceived in the absence of a number system. Numbers are not innate or universal; yet without them, the world as we know it would not exist.
Number concepts are a human invention developed and refined over millennia. They allow us to grasp quantities precisely: recent research shows that most specific quantities are not perceived in the absence of a number system. Numbers are not innate or universal; yet without them, the world as we know it would not exist.