The Kingdom of Infinite Number: A Field GuideHenry Holt and Company, 15 сент. 2001 г. - Всего страниц: 398 Just as bird guides help watchers tell birds apart by their color, songs, and behavior, The Kingdom of Infinite Number is the perfect handbook for identifying numbers in their native habitat. Taking a field guide-like approach, it offers a fresh way of looking at individual numbers and the properties that make them unique, which are also the properties essential for mental computation. The result provides new insights into mathematical patterns and relationships and an increased appreciation for the sheer wonder of numbers. |
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... known for this ability to recognize hidden number patterns as we recognize the faces and traits of those we know well. Karl Friederick Gauss, born near the end of the eighteenth century and still thought by most historians to have been ...
... known as tokens were used as counters. Early in the 1970s Schmandt-Besserat began a study of the use of clay by humans before the invention of pottery. Consequently, she began to evalute any ancient objects made from clay that were ...
... meaning—a cone might mean a sheep, a sphere a goat. On the basis of peasant practices throughout the world, histories of mathematics have frequently suggested that before numbers were known farm animals were counted by one-to-one.
A Field Guide Bryan Bunch. before numbers were known farm animals were counted by one-to-one correspondence. A farmer who had twentyseven sheep might keep a container of twenty-seven pebbles, one pebble for each sheep. As the sheep were ...
... known as HinduArabic because its most obvious, and most recent, genealogy is the typefaces that were designed to match the handwritten system of numeration used by the Arabs and other Islamic peoples at the time of the Crusades, the ...
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GenusNaturalCounting Numbers | |
Genera Integral and Rational Signed Numbers | |
GenusRational | |
GenusRealNumberLine Numbers | |
Genus Complex AllInclusive Numbers | |
Kingdom Infinity | |
A Note on Taxonomy | |