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The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip
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The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip

by Keith Devlin

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Paperback · 352 pages Basic Books · 2001

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The Math Gene

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 communication. Devlin goes on to show that the ability to think mathematically arose out of the same symbol-manipulating ability that was so crucial to the very first emergence of true language. Why, then, can't we do math as well as we speak? The answer, says Devlin, is that we can and do -- we just don't recognize when we're using mathematical reasoning.

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Publisher
Basic Books
Author
Keith Devlin
Format
Paperback
Published
May 17, 2001
ISBN-13
9780465016198
ISBN-10
0465016197
Pages
352
Carton quantity
32 copies
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