Numbers and the Making of Us - Counting and the Course of Human Cultures

Informationen zum Autor Caleb Everett, Professor of Anthropology and Psychology at the University of Miami, is the author of Numbers and the Making of Us and Linguistic Relativity: Evidence across Languages and Cognitive Domains . Zusammenfassung Number concepts are a human invention developed and refined over millennia. They allow us to grasp quantities precisely: recent research shows that most specific quantities are not perceived in the absence of a number system. Numbers are not innate or universal; yet without them! the world as we know it would not exist.

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• Authors: Caleb Everett, Everett Caleb
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780674504431
• ISBN: 978-0-674-50443-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Arithmetic, algebra; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MATHEMATICS / Counting & Numeration, Social & cultural anthropology, Social and cultural anthropology, Number Theory