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Africa Counts : Number and Pattern in African Culture.
This fascinating study of mathematical thinking among sub-Saharan African peoples covers counting in words and in gestures; measuring time, distance, weight, and other quantities; manipulating money and keeping accounts; number systems; patterns in music, poetry, art, and architecture; and number ma...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Los Angeles, CA :
Chicago Review Press,
1999.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Section 1 Background: African mathematics?
- Historical background / Section 2 Numbers-words, gestures, significance: Construction of numeration systems
- How Africans count
- Taboos and mysticism / Section 3 Numbers in daily life: The African concept of time
- Numbers and money
- Those familiar weights and measures!
- Record-keeping: sticks and strings / Section 4 Mathematical recreations: Games to grow on
- The game played by kings and cowherds-and presidents, too
- Magic squares / Section 5 Pattern and shape: Geometric form in architecture
- Part I: geometric form and pattern in art
- Part II: geometric symmetries in African art / Section 6 Regional study: Southwest Nigeria: History of the Yoruba states and Benin
- Systems of numeration
- Significant numbers
- Time-reckoning
- Markets and currency / Section 7 Regional study: East Africa: History of East Africa
- Spoken and gesture counting
- Number superstitions
- East African time
- Wealth means cattle-and other livestock / Section 8 Past and future: Pure mathematics in Africa
- Update: twenty-five years later.