The math gene : how mathematical thinking evolved and why numbers are like gossip / Keith Devlin.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: [New York] : Basic Books, c2000.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 328 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0465016189
  • 0465016197 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QA141 .D49 2000
Contents:
1. A mind for mathematics -- 2. In the beginning is number -- 3. Everybody counts -- 4. What is this thing called mathematics? -- 5. Do mathematicians have different brains? -- 6. Born to speak -- 7. The brain that grew and learned to talk -- 8. Out of our minds -- 9. Where demons lurk and mathematicians work -- 10. Roads not taken.
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"First published in Great Britain in 2000 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-315) and index.

1. A mind for mathematics -- 2. In the beginning is number -- 3. Everybody counts -- 4. What is this thing called mathematics? -- 5. Do mathematicians have different brains? -- 6. Born to speak -- 7. The brain that grew and learned to talk -- 8. Out of our minds -- 9. Where demons lurk and mathematicians work -- 10. Roads not taken.

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