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- catalog abstract "Explains how our innate pattern-making abilities allow us to perform mathematical reasoning. Why is math so hard? And why, despite this difficulty, are some people so good at it? If thereʹs some inborn capacity for mathematical thinking -- which there must be, otherwise no one could do it -- why canʹt we all do it well? Keith Devlin has answers to all these difficult questions, and in giving them shows us how mathematical ability evolved, why itʹs a part of language ability, and how we can make better use of this innate talent. He also offers a breathtakingly new theory of language development -- that language evolved in two stages, and its main purpose was not communication -- to show that the ability to think mathematically arose out of the same symbol-manipulating ability that was so crucial to the emergence of true language. Why, then, canʹt we do math as well as we can speak? The answer, says Devlin, is that we can and do -- we just donʹt recognize when weʹre using mathematical reasoning. -- Publisher description.".
- catalog alternative "How mathematical thinking evolved and why numbers are like gossip".
- catalog contributor b11774520.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "1. A mind for mathematics -- 2. In the beginning is number -- 3. Everybody counts -- 4. What is this thing called mathematics? -- 5. Do mathematicians have different brains? -- 6. Born to speak -- 7. The brain that grew and learned to talk -- 8. Out of our minds -- 9. Where demons lurk and mathematicians work -- 10. Roads not taken.".
- catalog description "Explains how our innate pattern-making abilities allow us to perform mathematical reasoning.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-315) and index.".
- catalog description "Why is math so hard? And why, despite this difficulty, are some people so good at it? If thereʹs some inborn capacity for mathematical thinking -- which there must be, otherwise no one could do it -- why canʹt we all do it well? Keith Devlin has answers to all these difficult questions, and in giving them shows us how mathematical ability evolved, why itʹs a part of language ability, and how we can make better use of this innate talent. He also offers a breathtakingly new theory of language development -- that language evolved in two stages, and its main purpose was not communication -- to show that the ability to think mathematically arose out of the same symbol-manipulating ability that was so crucial to the emergence of true language. Why, then, canʹt we do math as well as we can speak? The answer, says Devlin, is that we can and do -- we just donʹt recognize when weʹre using mathematical reasoning. -- Publisher description.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 328 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Math gene.".
- catalog identifier "0465016189".
- catalog isFormatOf "Math gene.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "[New York, N.Y.] : Basic Books,".
- catalog relation "Math gene.".
- catalog subject "510.1 21".
- catalog subject "Mathematical ability.".
- catalog subject "Mathematics Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Mathematics Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Number concept.".
- catalog subject "QA141.15 .D48 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. A mind for mathematics -- 2. In the beginning is number -- 3. Everybody counts -- 4. What is this thing called mathematics? -- 5. Do mathematicians have different brains? -- 6. Born to speak -- 7. The brain that grew and learned to talk -- 8. Out of our minds -- 9. Where demons lurk and mathematicians work -- 10. Roads not taken.".
- catalog title "How mathematical thinking evolved and why numbers are like gossip".
- catalog title "The math gene : how mathematical thinking evolved and why numbers are like gossip / Keith Devlin.".
- catalog type "text".