The Material Origin Of Numbers
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The Material Origin Of Numbers
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Author : Karenleigh Anne Overmann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Material Origin Of Numbers written by Karenleigh Anne Overmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
"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"--
Oxford Handbook Of Cognitive Archaeology
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language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-12
Oxford Handbook Of Cognitive Archaeology written by and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-12 with Psychology categories.
Cognitive Archaeology is a relatively young though fast growing discipline. The intellectual heart of cognitive archaeology is archaeology, the discipline that investigates the only direct evidence of the actions and decisions of prehistoric people. Its theories and methods are an eclectic mix of psychological, neuroscientific, paleoneurological, philosophical, anthropological, ethnographic, comparative, aesthetic, and experimental theories, methods, and models, united only by their focus on cognition. The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology is a landmark publication, showcasing the theories, methods, and accomplishments of archaeologists who investigate the human mind, including its evolutionary development, its ideation (thoughts and beliefs), and its very nature-through material forms. The volume encompasses the wide spectrum of the discipline, showcasing contributions from more than 50 established and emerging scholars from Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. Prominent among these are contributions that discuss the epistemological frameworks of both the evolutionary and ideational approaches and the leading theories that ground interpretations. Significantly, the majority of chapters deliver substantive contributions that analyze specific examples of material culture, from the oldest known stone tools to ceramic and rock art traditions of the recent millennium. These examples include the gamut of methods and techniques, including typology, replication studies, cha?nes operatoires, neuroarchaeology, ethnographic comparison, and the direct historical approach. In addition, the book begins with retrospective essays by several of the pioneers of cognitive archaeology, presenting a broad range of state-of-the-art investigations into cognitive abilities, tackling thorny issues like the cognitive status of Neandertals, and concluding with speculative essays about the future of an archaeology of mind, and of the mind itself.
Cultural Number Systems
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Author : Karenleigh A. Overmann
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-04-26
Cultural Number Systems written by Karenleigh A. Overmann and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-26 with Social Science categories.
This sourcebook presents an extensive look at cultural number systems in numeracy and writing systems. Based on a decade of research by the author, the work examines topics such as why Xerxes the First counted his army by having his men march through an enclosure big enough to hold 10,000 of them at a time, why the Hawaiian word for "twenty" means “nine and two,” why an ancient Greek mathematician was driven mad by irrational numbers, and how old counting might be and how we might know this. Along the way, the author describes topics such as dactylonomy, the ancient art of expressing and calculating numbers with the fingers; specified counting, the use of different counting sequences to count different types of objects; and the ephemeral abacus, strategies for counting that involve people and goods but not an actual device. The chapters are organized into six geographical areas (the ancient Near East, Africa, Europe, Asia/India, Oceania, and the Americas).
Greek Mathematical Thought And The Origin Of Algebra
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Author : Jacob Klein
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2013-04-22
Greek Mathematical Thought And The Origin Of Algebra written by Jacob Klein and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-22 with Mathematics categories.
Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. 1968 edition. Bibliography.
The Golden Age Of Data Visualization
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Author : Kim Marriott
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2024-09-04
The Golden Age Of Data Visualization written by Kim Marriott and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-04 with Computers categories.
We are living in the Golden Age of Data Visualization. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how we increasingly use data visualizations to make sense of the world. Business analysts fill their presentations with charts, journalists use infographics to engage their readers, we rely on the dials and gauges on our household appliances, and we use mapping apps on our smartphones to find our way. This book explains how and why this has happened. It details the evolution of information graphics, the kinds of graphics at the core of data visualization—maps, diagrams, charts, scientific and medical images—from prehistory to the present day. It explains how the cultural context, production and presentation technologies, and data availability have shaped the history of data visualization. It considers the perceptual and cognitive reasons why data visualization is so effective and explores the little-known world of tactile graphics—raised-line drawings used by people who are blind. The book also investigates the way visualization has shaped our modern world. The European Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution relied on maps and technical and scientific drawings, and graphics influence how we think about abstract concepts like time and social connection. This book is written for data visualization researchers and professionals and anyone interested in data visualization and the way we use graphics to understand and think about the world.
The Biographical History Of Philosophy From Its Origin Greece Down
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Author : George Henry Lewes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
The Biographical History Of Philosophy From Its Origin Greece Down written by George Henry Lewes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with categories.
The Biographical History Of Philosophy From Its Origin In Greece Down To The Present Day
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Author : George Henry Lewes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
The Biographical History Of Philosophy From Its Origin In Greece Down To The Present Day written by George Henry Lewes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with Philosophers categories.
Knowledge Literacy And Elementary Education In The Old Babylonian Period
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Author : Robert Middeke-Conlin
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-11-09
Knowledge Literacy And Elementary Education In The Old Babylonian Period written by Robert Middeke-Conlin and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-09 with Science categories.
This book examines education as a means to explore knowledge and literacy in the Old Babylonian period. It further employs a new method to research these topics. Contrary to numerous existing studies on the subject, the author examines elementary education globally, that is, in pursuit of Old Babylonian education in its entirety. Typically, education is examined in a piecemeal fashion. It's as if education centered on lexicography alone or mathematics alone. This work encompasses a view about educational content and knowledge systems, as opposed to only specific aspects or branches of them. In doing so, a characterization of institution and society is made possible allowing the work to open new general perspectives on Mesopotamian knowledge, literacy, and education.
The Origin And Significance Of Zero
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-03-11
The Origin And Significance Of Zero written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-11 with Philosophy categories.
Winner of the 2024 Outstanding Academic Titles award in Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Zero has been axial in human development, but the origin and discovery of zero has never been satisfactorily addressed by a comprehensive, systematic and above all interdisciplinary research program. In this volume, over 40 international scholars explore zero under four broad themes: history; religion, philosophy & linguistics; arts; and mathematics & the sciences. Some propose that the invention/discovery of zero may have been facilitated by the prior evolution of a sophisticated concept of Nothingness or Emptiness (as it is understood in non-European traditions); and conversely, inhibited by the absence of, or aversion to, such a concept of Nothingness in the West. But not all scholars agree. Join the debate.
The Origin Of The History Of Science In Classical Antiquity
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Author : Leonid Zhmud
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2008-08-22
The Origin Of The History Of Science In Classical Antiquity written by Leonid Zhmud and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-22 with History categories.
This is the first comprehensive study of what remains of the writings of Aristotle's student Eudemus of Rhodes on the history of the exact sciences. These fragments are crucial to our understanding of the content, form, and goal of the Peripatetic historiography of science. The first part of the book presents an analysis of those trends in Presocratic, Sophistic and Platonic thought that contributed to the development of the history of science. The second part provides a detailed study of Eudemus' writings in their relationship with the scientific literature of his time, Aristotelian philosophy and the other historiographic genres practiced at the Lyceum: biography, medical and natural-philosophical doxography. Although Peripatetic historiography of science failed in establishing itself as a continuous genre, it greatly contributed both to the birth of the Arabic medieval historiography of science and to the development of this genre in Europe in the 16th-18th centuries.