The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip - Paperback
by Keith Devlin
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465016198ISBN-10:465016197UPC:9780465016198Book Category:Psychology, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, LinguisticsSize:8.02 x 5.32 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SC2YNVG0RJ
The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465016198ISBN-10:465016197UPC:9780465016198Book Category:Psychology, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, LinguisticsSize:8.02 x 5.32 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SC2YNVG0RJ
Keith Devlin is a Senior Researcher and Executive Director at Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information, a Consulting Professor in the Department of Mathematics, and a co-founder of the Stanford Media X research network. National Public Radio's "Math Guy," he is the author of over twenty-five books. He lives in Stanford, California.
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