The Materiality of Numbers: Emergence and Elaboration from Prehistory to Present

This book addresses the material devices used to represent and manipulate numerical concepts. Fingers, tallies, tokens, and written notations, invented in both ancestral and contemporary societies, explain what numbers are, why they are the way they are, and how we get them

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1. Verfasser: Overmann, Karenleigh A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Cambridge University Press 2023
Ausgabe:1st ed
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Zusammenfassung:This book addresses the material devices used to represent and manipulate numerical concepts. Fingers, tallies, tokens, and written notations, invented in both ancestral and contemporary societies, explain what numbers are, why they are the way they are, and how we get them
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ISBN:9781009361286

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