The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip

Devlin, Keith J.

ISBN 10: 0465016189 / ISBN 13: 9780465016181

Edité par Basic Books, New York, 2000

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No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. First Edition, First Printing. '. . . an instant antidote to math phobia and a pleasure to read.' [ Ian Stewart, author of _Nature's Numbers and Life's Other]. N° de réf. du vendeur 013960

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Titre : The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking ...

Éditeur : Basic Books, New York

Date d'édition : 2000

Reliure : Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Etat : Fine

Etat de la jaquette : Fine

Edition : First Edition, First Printing.

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If people are endowed with a "number instinct" similar to the "language instinct"—as recent research suggests—then why can't everyone do math? In The Math Gene, mathematician and popular writer Keith Devlin attacks both sides of this question.Devlin offers a breathtakingly new theory of language development that describes how language evolved in two stages and how its main purpose was not communication. Devlin goes on to show that the ability to think mathematically arose out of the same symbol-manipulating ability that was so crucial to the very first emergence of true language.Why, then, can't we do math as well as we speak? The answer, says Devlin, is that we can and do—we just don't recognize when we're using mathematical reasoning.