: Caleb Everett
: Numbers and the Making of Us Counting and the Course of Human Cultures
: Harvard University Press
: 9780674979147
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: CHF 30.90
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: Naturwissenschaft
: English
Number concepts are a human invention developed and refined over millennia. They allow us to grasp quantities precisely: recent research shows that most specific quantities are not perceived in the absence of a number system. Numbers are not innate or universal, yet without them, the world as we know it would not exist.