The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics - Hardcover

Dehaene, Stanislas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195110048 ISBN 13: 9780195110043

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

Synopsis

Drawing on recent neurological discoveries and experiments, a ground-breaking study reveals how the brain is structured from birth to perform mathematical calculations--a capacity shared by humans and animals--and explains why it evolved that way. UP.

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Review:

"Read The Number Sense for its rich insights into matters as varying as the cuneiform depiction of numbers, why Jean Piaget's theory of stages in infant learning is wrong, and to discover the brain regions involved in the number sense."--The New York Times Book Review
"From the origin of Roman numerals to the latest MRI results, everything you might like to know about numbers and the brain, as filtered through the lively and engaging brain of Stanislas Dehaene."--Discover
"A delight."--Ian Stewart, New Scientist
"Read The Number Sense for its rich insights into matters as varying as the cuneiform depiction of numbers, why Jean Piaget's theory of stages in infant learning is wrong, and to discover the brain regions involved in the number sense."--The New York Times Book Review
"From the origin of Roman numerals to the latest MRI results, everything you might like to know about numbers and the brain, as filtered through the lively and engaging brain of Stanislas Dehaene."--Discover
"A delight."--Ian Stewart, New Scientist
"Read The Number Sense for its rich insights into matters as varying as the cuneiform depiction of numbers, why Jean Piaget's theory of stages in infant learning is wrong, and to discover the brain regions involved in the number sense."--The New York Times Book Review
"From the origin of Roman numerals to the latest MRI results, everything you might like to know about numbers and the brain, as filtered through the lively and engaging brain of Stanislas Dehaene."--Discover
"A delight."--Ian Stewart, New Scientist
"Read The Number Sense for its rich insights into matters as varying as the cuneiform depiction of numbers, why Jean Piaget's theory of stages in infant learning is wrong, and to discover the brain regions involved in the number sense."--The New York Times Book Review

"From the origin of Roman numerals to the latest MRI results, everything you might like to know about numbers and the brain, as filtered through the lively and engaging brain of Stanislas Dehaene."--Discover

"A delight."--Ian Stewart, New Scientist

"Read The Number Sense for its rich insights into matters as varying as the cuneiform depiction of numbers, why Jean Piaget's theory of stages in infant learning is wrong, and to discover the brain regions involved in the number sense."--The New York Times Book Review

"From the origin of Roman numerals to the latest MRI results, everything you might like to know about numbers and the brain, as filtered through the lively and engaging brain of Stanislas Dehaene."--Discover

"A delight."--Ian Stewart, New Scientist

About the Author:

About the Author:
Stanislas Dehaene is Research Affiliate at the Institute de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, in Paris, France.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0195110048
• ISBN 13: 9780195110043
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288