Screen LibraryHow mathematics happened：the first 50,000 years
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Prometheus Books,
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| Publisher Address: | Amherst, N.Y. |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 314 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
1591024773 (alk. paper) 9781591024774 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | O11 |
| CLC: | O11 |
| Call Number: | O11/R916 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-308) and index. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Mathematical Darwinism -- 1.2. The replacement concept -- 1.3. Number systems -- 2. The birth of arithmetic -- 2.1. Pattern recognition evolves into counting -- 2.2. Counting in hunter-gatherer cultures -- 3. Pebble counting evolves into written numbers -- 3.1. Herder-farmer and urban cultures in the valley of the Nile -- 3.2. Herder-farmer and urban cultures by the waters of Babylon -- 3.3. In the jungles of the Maya -- 4. Mathematics in the valley of the Nile -- 4.1. Egyptian multiplication -- 4.2. Egyptian fractions -- 4.3. Egyptian algebra -- 4.4. Pyramidiots -- 5 |