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The Materiality of Numbers: Emergence and Elaboration from Prehistory to Present Overmann, Karenleigh A. (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)
The Materiality of Numbers: Emergence and Elaboration from Prehistory to Present
Overmann, Karenleigh A. (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)
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 are, and how we get them.
350 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 25, 2023 |
| ISBN13 | 9781009361248 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 444 |
| Dimensions | 158 × 235 × 29 mm · 782 g (Weight (estimated)) |