The Materiality Of Numbers: Emergence And Elaboration From Prehistory To Present

This book addresses the material devices used to represent and manipulate numerical concepts. Fingers, tallies, tokens, and written notations, invented in both ancestral and contemporary societies, explain what numbers are, why they are the way they are, and how we get them.

• | Author: Karenleigh A. Overmann
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: May 25, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 350 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1009361244
• | ISBN-13: 9781009361248