The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics - Brossura

Dehaene, Stanislas

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ISBN 10: 0195132408 ISBN 13: 9780195132403

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, 1999

Riassunto

The Number Sense is an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Describing experiments that show that human infants have a rudimentary number sense, Stanislas Dehaene suggests that this sense is as basic as our perception of color, and that it is wired into the brain. Dehaene shows that it was the invention of symbolic systems of numerals that started us on the climb to higher mathematics. A fascinating look at the crossroads where numbers and neurons intersect, The Number Sense offers an intriguing tour of how the structure of the brain shapes our mathematical abilities, and how our mathematics opens up a window on the human mind.

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L'autore

Stanislas Dehaene is Research Director at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, in Paris, France.

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Book by Dehaene Stanislas

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0195132408
• ISBN 13: 9780195132403
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 274