Counting
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON
EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT
SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?Counting is
an innovative, erudite, world-wrapping journey through humanity's
marvellous ability to impose numbers on things. Acclaimed historian
and mathematician Benjamin Wardhaugh draws on stories from the
Stone Age to cyberspace in pursuit of the elusive, fascinating,
endlessly diverse history of human counting.Starting with the roots
of counting in human brains, bodies and environments, Wardhaugh
tours us around the world and through time while exploring the
different flavours of counting that have developed over millennia.
We meet the makers of bead necklaces in ancient South Africa, the
inventors of writing in the world ' s first metropolis, and the
'counter culture' of classical Athens.We see counting used - and
changed - by Indian scholars, Chinese peasants and Papuan
shopkeepers, we meet the distinctive numerate agendas of Mayan
kings, US governments and Korean vloggers.Weaving these stories
together, Wardhaugh shows how cultures have shaped counting, and
how counting has shaped culture, in a rich tapestry spanning
thousands of years. This is the vast story of human attempts to
find some order in an unruly world, or, perhaps, to impose on a
reluctant world the order that humans find within themselves. It is
a history as wide, deep and tangled as that of humanity itself
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HarperCollins Publishers ,
Wardhaugh Benjamin
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HarperCollins Publishers,
Wardhaugh Benjamin
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