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The Number Sense

Paperback • 2011 • English

The Number Sense

By Stanislas Dehaene

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About the book

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world. Now, in The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a fascinating look at this recent research, in an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Dehaene begins with the eye-opening discovery that animals-including rats, pigeons, raccoons, and chimpanzees-can perform simple mathematical calculatio...Show more

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9780199753871

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

The Number Sense

Format

Paperback

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