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- catalog abstract ""Why are some types of number so hard to understand? What connects our hands to our sense of number? Why does schooling sometimes leave us so muddled and discouraged that we close the door on our mathematical brain? And what can we do to open the door again?" "Brian Butterworth answers these and other intriguing questions as he takes us on a riveting biological and historical journey from tally-marks on the walls of Ice Age caves and the body-counting of New Guinea to his own cutting-edge research on mathematical brains, normal and abnormal. He tells us about the bookkeeper who could no longer count above four, and about the science graduate who has to solve the simplest problems by counting on his fingers, as well as about the calculating prodigy who can find powers and roots in seconds."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11158615.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Why are some types of number so hard to understand? What connects our hands to our sense of number? Why does schooling sometimes leave us so muddled and discouraged that we close the door on our mathematical brain? And what can we do to open the door again?" "Brian Butterworth answers these and other intriguing questions as he takes us on a riveting biological and historical journey from tally-marks on the walls of Ice Age caves and the body-counting of New Guinea to his own cutting-edge research on mathematical brains, normal and abnormal. He tells us about the bookkeeper who could no longer count above four, and about the science graduate who has to solve the simplest problems by counting on his fingers, as well as about the calculating prodigy who can find powers and roots in seconds."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-437) and index.".
- catalog description "Thinking by numbers -- Everybody counts -- Born to count -- Numbers in the brain -- Hand, space, and brain -- Bigger and smaller -- Good and bad at numbers -- Home, street, and school mathematics -- Hard numbers and easy numbers.".
- catalog extent "xv, 446 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0333735277".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Macmillan,".
- catalog subject "153.9 21".
- catalog subject "1999 H-517".
- catalog subject "Aptitude.".
- catalog subject "BF 456.N7 B988m 1999".
- catalog subject "BF456.N7 B88 1999".
- catalog subject "Mathematical ability.".
- catalog subject "Mathematics Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Mathematics.".
- catalog subject "Psychology.".
- catalog subject "Thinking.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Thinking by numbers -- Everybody counts -- Born to count -- Numbers in the brain -- Hand, space, and brain -- Bigger and smaller -- Good and bad at numbers -- Home, street, and school mathematics -- Hard numbers and easy numbers.".
- catalog title "The mathematical brain / Brian Butterworth.".
- catalog type "text".