(Read and download) The Maths Gene: Why Everyone Has it, But Most People Don't Use it
❀ Keith J. Devlin ❀
| #6689529 in Books | 2001-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.83 x.98 x5.16l,.45 | File Name: 075381126X | 320 pages
||0 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Not So Much|By ponypinup|I tried.... But it felt like I was eating unbuttered toast.|11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Does not provide support for its main theses.|By M. Le Corre|I am a cognitive scientist who studies how children acquire number concepts and numerical language. Based on the last 30 years of|.com |For many, the mere word "mathematics" is enough to conjure memories of incomprehension at school, and fear and loathing ever afterward. Countless otherwise well-educated people see mathematics as the skeleton in their intellectual closet--the one key sub
Where does our mathematical ability come from? Our prehistoric ancestors' brains were essentially the same as ours, so they must have had the same underlying ability. What purpose could it serve in 50,000 BC? And what exactly goes on in our brains when we multiply 15 by 36 or prove Fermat's Last Theorem? The answer, according to Keith Devlin, is closely related to the evolutionary changes in the human brain that gave rise to language. It lies within our genes and more s...
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