The Material Origin of Numbers examines how number concepts are realized, represented, manipulated, and elaborated. Utilizing the cognitive archaeological framework of Material Engagement Theory and culling data from disciplines including neuroscien...Lasīt vairāk
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society and modes of thought. At the beginning of the early modern period, English men and women beli...Lasīt vairāk
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society. At the beginning of the early modern period, English men and women believed that God had made...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-May-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009361248)
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...Lasīt vairāk
Have you ever wondered how people counted to 100 before modern numbers were invented? In the How Do series, readers are invited to guess and then explore the science behind the right answers. A basic explanation of Roman numerals, ex...Lasīt vairāk
Uncover the language of our universe - numbers - in this wide-ranging whistle-stop tour of the history and majesty of mathematics. Our world simply wouldnt function if we didnt have numbers. But where do they come from? Why do we cut cake t...Lasīt vairāk
Numbers: A Cultural History provides students with a compelling interdisciplinary view of the development of mathematics and its relationship to world cultures over 4,500 years of human history.Mathematics is often referred to as a ...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : World Scientific Series in Information Studies
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Jun-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789811236839)
The book is the first in the trilogy which will bring you to the fascinating world of numbers and operations with them. Numbers provide information about myriads of things. Together with operations, numbers constitute arithmetic forming in basic int...Lasīt vairāk
We tend to think of numbers as inherently objective and precise. Yet the diverse ways in which ancient Greeks used numbers illustrates that counting is actually shaped by context-specific and culturally-dependent choices: what should be counted and...Lasīt vairāk
In this newest addition to the How Do series, readers will learn about Roman numerals and how to use them through step-by-step guides, diagrams and photos. Illustrations....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Aug-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789811218293)
Natural numbers are the oldest human invention. This book describes their nature, laws, history and current status. It has seven chapters. The first five chapters contain not only the basics of elementary number theory for the convenience of teachin...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Dec-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262044639)
An anthropological exploration of evolving number systems and how they are used, and eventually displace, by newer number systems-- Insights from the history of numerical notation suggest that how humans write numbers is an active choice...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Apr-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674983632)
Michael Hobart locates the great rift between science and religion not in ideological disagreement but in advances in mathematics and symbolic representation that moved past language to open new windows onto the natural world. His work connects the c...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Sep-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789813222922)
this could make an ideal end-of-year prize for a high-school student who is fascinated by all aspects of number. The subsections provide ideas and opportunities for mathematical exploration. This book might also be deemed a suitable resource for f...Lasīt vairāk
Learn the history of number systems with this engaging book! This text combines mathematics and literacy skills, and uses practical, real-world examples of problem solving to teach math and language arts content. Students will learn place value while...Lasīt vairāk
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Flegg (Open U.) explores how numbers have been at the center of human awareness of surroundings since well before surviving records, and sets out for general readers ideas and techniques association with numbers over the centuries. The 1983 edition w...Lasīt vairāk
A reprint of the 1969 English translation (MIT Press) of the revised German edition of 1957-58 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Gottingen). A classic study documenting the origin and meaning of numbers in various cultures. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc...Lasīt vairāk
Progress has often been slow when it comes to understanding numbers. Numbers provide a rich source of exotic ideas, philosophical and mathematical, but because many of us are so invested in the familiar, we have often resisted ideas about numbers...Lasīt vairāk
Das Zahlenwissen im Mittelalter steht im Zentrum dieses Bandes. Die Autorinnen und Autoren fragen nach der Prasenz und den Ordnungsangeboten des numerus in der mittelalterlichen Manuskriptkultur. In funf Rubriken werden an historischen Detailstudien...Lasīt vairāk
This volume, the third by Charles Burnett in the Variorum series, brings together articles on the different numeral forms used in the Middle Ages, and their use in mathematical and other contexts. Some pieces study the introduction of Hindu-Arabic nu...Lasīt vairāk
Explains the history of written numbers, from ancient Roman numerals to the invention of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system and the spread of the Arabic numeral system around the world....Lasīt vairāk
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Are you scared of maths? Have you ever wondered how the basic principles of mathematics were discovered? Or why books with numbers in the title seem to be successful? This book intends to reveal the laws and ways in which mathematics is the fundament...Lasīt vairāk
An exploration of the origins and influences of number from prehistory to modern time • Reveals the deeper meaning of the symbols and esoteric knowledge of secret societies • Explains the numerical sophistication o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-May-2004, Hardback, Izdevniecība: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9780312295318)
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Though the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have long been recognized as watershed moments of scientific discovery in Western Europe, recent work in historical epistemology has underscored the complexity and unevenness of the transition fro...Lasīt vairāk
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Explains the history of written numbers, from ancient Roman numerals to the invention of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system and the spread of the Arabic numeral system around the world....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Dec-2002, Hardback, Izdevniecība: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780195219258)
Explains the origin and usage of numbers throughout world history, and describes the basic principles of calendars, measurement, and economics. The whimsical toucans, chickens, owl, and penguin from Write Around the World return, bum...Lasīt vairāk
