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The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics

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The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics - Dehaene, Stanislas
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A brilliant exploration of how the brain performs mathematical calculations reveals that a rudimentary number sense is wired into our brains at birth, locates exactly where in the brain mathematics takes place, argues that for the most part our brains did not sufficiently evolve to perform higher mathematics. This is a truly fascinating look at the crossroads where numbers and neurons intersect. Illus.

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The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics 1999, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195132403

Trade paperback

The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics 1997, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195110043

Hardcover