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EBOOK Number Sense:How the Mind Creates Mathematics, Revised and Updated Edition

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199910397
EAN: D0231554EB
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Stron: 352
Data wydania: 2011
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Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far        from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by        scientists all over the world. Now, in The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a        fascinating look at this recent research, in an enlightening exploration of the        mathematical mind. Dehaene begins with the eye-opening discovery that        animals--including rats, pigeons, raccoons, and chimpanzees--can perform simple        mathematical calculations, and that human infants also have a rudimentary number        sense. Dehaene suggests that this rudimentary number sense is as basic to the way        the brain understands the world as our perception of color or of objects in space,        and, like these other abilities, our number sense is wired into the brain. These are        but a few of the wealth of fascinating observations contained here. We also        discover, for example, that because Chinese names for numbers are so short, Chinese        people can remember up to nine or ten digits at a time--English-speaking people can        only remember seven. The book also explores the unique abilities of idiot savants        and mathematical geniuses, and we meet people whose minute brain lesions render        their mathematical ability useless. This new and completely updated edition includes        all of the most recent scientific data on how numbers are encoded by single neurons,        and which brain areas activate when we perform calculations. Perhaps most important,        The Number Sense reaches many provocative conclusions that will intrigue anyone        interested in learning, mathematics, or the mind."e;A delight."e;--Ian Stewart, New        Scientist"e;Read The Number Sense for its rich insights into matters as varying as the        cuneiform depiction of numbers, why Jean Piaget's theory of stages in infant        learning is wrong, and to discover the brain regions involved in the number        sense."e;--The New York Times Book Review"e;Dehaene weaves the latest technical research        into a remarkably lucid and engrossing investigation. Even readers normally        indifferent to mathematics will find themselves marveling at the wonder of minds        making numbers."e;--Booklist

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