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THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF NUMBERS
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THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF NUMBERS By Thomas Crump Cambridge University Press, 1990, 197 pp. ISBN: 0-521-43807-1
As mathematics teachers, we try to instill in our students the prevalence and significance of mathematics in human society. We draw many of our examples from modern, high-tech society, and rightly so. However, it is also important to remind students that mathematics has been a part of human history since the beginning of human society, and has played an important role in cultures and traditions throughout the world. The Anthropology of Numbers is a well-constructed survey of the use and ...
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