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Numerical notation : a comparative history /
This book is a cross-cultural reference volume of all attested numerical notation systems (graphic, non-phonetic systems for representing numbers), encompassing more than 100 such systems used over the past 5,500 years. Using a typology that defies progressive, unilinear evolutionary models of chang...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Hieroglyphic systems
- Levantine systems
- Italic systems
- Alphabetic systems
- South Asian systems
- Mesopotamian systems
- East Asian systems
- Mesoamerican systems
- Miscellaneous systems
- Cognitive and structural analysis
- Social and historical analysis
- Conclusion.