The Materiality of Numbers
Title | The Materiality of Numbers PDF eBook |
Author | Karenleigh A. Overmann |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 443 |
Release | 2023-05-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1009361279 |
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 contemporary societies, explain what numbers are, why they are the way they are, and how we get them. Overmann is the first to explore how material devices contribute to numerical thinking, initially by helping us to visualize and manipulate the perceptual experience of quantity that we share with other species. She explores how and why numbers are conceptualized and then elaborated, as well as the central role that material objects play in both processes. Overmann's volume thus offers a view of numerical cognition that is based on an alternative set of assumptions about numbers, their material component, and the nature of the human mind and thinking.
The Materiality of Numbers
Title | The Materiality of Numbers PDF eBook |
Author | Karenleigh Anne Overmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Numeration |
ISBN | 9781009361255 |
"This book addresses the material devices used to represent and manipulate numerical concepts. Fingers, tallies, tokens, and written notations, invented in both ancestral and contemporary societies, explain what numbers are, why they are the way they are, and how we get them"--
The Material Origin of Numbers
Title | The Material Origin of Numbers PDF eBook |
Author | Karenleigh Anne Overmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781463207434 |
"The Material Origin of Numbers examines how number concepts are realized, represented, manipulated, and elaborated. Utilizing the cognitive archaeological framework of Material Engagement Theory and culling data from disciplines including neuroscience, ethnography, linguistics, and archaeology, Overmann offers a methodologically rich study of numbers and number concepts in the ancient Near East from the late Upper Paleolithic Period through the Bronze Age"--
Modernism and the Materiality of Texts
Title | Modernism and the Materiality of Texts PDF eBook |
Author | Eyal Amiran |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2016-07-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107136075 |
This book argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises.
California. Supreme Court. Records and Briefs
Title | California. Supreme Court. Records and Briefs PDF eBook |
Author | California (State). |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
Court of Appeal Case(s): B045293
Boxes and Books in Early Modern England
Title | Boxes and Books in Early Modern England PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy Razzall |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2021-08-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108831338 |
Uses the idea of the box in early modern England to develop a new direction in book history and material culture.
Numbers and the Making of Us
Title | Numbers and the Making of Us PDF eBook |
Author | Caleb Everett |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2017-03-13 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0674504437 |
“A fascinating book.” —James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review A Smithsonian Best Science Book of the Year Winner of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Language & Linguistics Carved into our past and woven into our present, numbers shape our perceptions of the world far more than we think. In this sweeping account of how the invention of numbers sparked a revolution in human thought and culture, Caleb Everett draws on new discoveries in psychology, anthropology, and linguistics to reveal the many things made possible by numbers, from the concept of time to writing, agriculture, and commerce. Numbers are a tool, like the wheel, developed and refined over millennia. They allow us to grasp quantities precisely, but recent research confirms that they are not innate—and without numbers, we could not fully grasp quantities greater than three. Everett considers the number systems that have developed in different societies as he shares insights from his fascinating work with indigenous Amazonians. “This is bold, heady stuff... The breadth of research Everett covers is impressive, and allows him to develop a narrative that is both global and compelling... Numbers is eye-opening, even eye-popping.” —New Scientist “A powerful and convincing case for Everett’s main thesis: that numbers are neither natural nor innate to humans.” —Wall Street Journal