The Materiality of Numbers: Emergence and Elaboration from Prehistory to Present by Karenleigh A. Overmann
The Materiality of Numbers: Emergence and Elaboration from Prehistory to Present
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Karenleigh A. Overmann
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The Materiality of Numbers: Emergence and Elaboration from Prehistory to Present

Karenleigh A. Overmann

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This is a book about numbers - what they are as concepts and how and why they originate - as viewed through the material devices used to represent and manipulate them. Fingers, tallies, tokens, and written notations, invented in both ancestral and...

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