Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures by Caleb Everett

Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures

Caleb Everett

312 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science informative slow-paced
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Carved into our past, woven into our present, numbers shape our perceptions of the world and of ourselves much more than we commonly think. Numbers and the Making of Us is a sweeping account of how numbers radically enhanced our species' cognitive...

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