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The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip

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Title The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip
Author Devlin, Keith
Binding Hardback
Edition 1st
Condition Used - Very good
Pages 352
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Basic Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Publication date 2000
Bookseller's Inventory # 0465016189-11-1-29
ISBN 9780465016181 / 0465016189
Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
Dimensions 9.68 x 6.48 x 1.17 in (24.59 x 16.46 x 2.97 cm)
Reading level 1230
Category Mathematics
Library of Congress subjects Mathematics - Philosophy, Mathematical ability
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001520984
Dewey Decimal Code 510.1
Quantity available 1

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If people are endowed with a "number instinct" similar to the "language instinct"--as recent research suggests--then why can't everyone do math? In The Math Gene, mathematician and popular writer Keith Devlin attacks both sides of this question.Devlin offers a breathtakingly new theory of language development that describes how language evolved in two stages and how its main purpose was not communication. Devlin goes on to show that the ability to think mathematically arose out of the same symbol-manipulating ability that was so crucial to the very first emergence of true language.Why, then, can't we do math as well as we speak? The answer, says Devlin, is that we can and do--we just don't recognize when we're using mathematical reasoning.

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