Numbers and the Making of Us Counting and the Course of Human Cultures

Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures Everett Caleb Wydawca: Harvard University Press Data wydania: 2017 ISBN: 9780674504431 Liczba stron: 312 Format: 150 x 218 x 26 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: 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.