The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics - Couverture souple

Dehaene, Stanislas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195132408 ISBN 13 : 9780195132403

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1999

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195132408
• ISBN 13: 9780195132403
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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