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Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
How our intuitive understanding of numbers is deeply rooted in our biology, traceable through both evolution and development. Humans' understanding of numbers is intuitive. Infants are able to estimate and calculate even before they learn the words for numbers. How have we come to possess this talent for numbers? In 'A Brain for Numbers', Andreas Nieder explains how our brains process numbers. He reports that numerical competency is deeply rooted...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The philosopher Bertrand Russell once observed that realizing that a pair of apples and the passage of two days could somehow both be represented by the concept we call "two" was one of the most astonishing discoveries anyone had ever made. So what do we make of the incredible fact that animals seem to have inherent mathematical abilities? As cognitive psychologist Brian Butterworth shows us in Can Fish Count?, many "simple" animals--such as bees,...
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