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- Counting : Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
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Counting : Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
ISBN: 9780008436506
Autorius : Benjamin Wardhaugh
Leidimo metai: 2025
Leidėjas: HarperCollins
Puslapių skaičius: 384
Leidinio kalba: Anglų
Formatas: Minkšti viršeliai
Autorius : Benjamin Wardhaugh
Leidimo metai: 2025
Leidėjas: HarperCollins
Puslapių skaičius: 384
Leidinio kalba: Anglų
Formatas: Minkšti viršeliai
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?Counting is an innovative, erudite, world-wrapping journey through humanitys marvellous ability to impose numbers on things. Acclaimed historian and mathematician Benjamin Wardhaugh draws on stories from the Stone Age to cyberspace in pursuit of the elusive, fascinating, endlessly diverse history of human counting.
Starting with the roots of counting in human brains, bodies and environments, Wardhaugh tours us around the world and through time while exploring the different flavours of counting that have developed over millennia. We meet the makers of bead necklaces in ancient South Africa, the inventors of writing in the world s first metropolis, and the counter culture of classical Athens. We see counting used and changed by Indian scholars, Chinese peasants and Papuan shopkeepers; we meet the distinctive numerate agendas of Mayan kings, US governments and Korean vloggers.
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