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Native American mathematics /
There is no question that native cultures in the New World exhibit many forms of mathematical development. This Native American mathematics can best be described by considering the nature of the concepts found in a variety of individual New World cultures. Unlike modern mathematics in which numbers...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
©1986.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Native American number systems / Michael P. Closs
- Numerical representations in North American rock art / William Breen Murray
- Some notes on quantification and numerals in an Amazon Indian language / Maurizio Covaz Gnerre
- The calendrical and numerical systems of the Nootka / William J. Folan
- Chumash numerals -/ Madison S. Beeler
- Cultural ecology of mathematics: Ojibway and Inuit hunters / J. Peter Denny
- Tallies and the ritual use of number in Ojibway pictography / Michael P. Closs
- A survey of Aztec numbers and their uses / Stanley E. Payne and Michael P. Closs
- Decipherment and some implications of Aztec numerical glyphs / Herbert R. Harvey and Barbara J. Williams
- Mathematical ideas of the Incas / Marcia Ascher
- The mathematical notation of the ancient Maya / Michael P. Closs
- The zero in the Mayan numerical notation / A. Seidenberg
- In search of Mesoamerican geometry / Francine Vinette.