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

Devlin, Keith J.

ISBN 10: 0465013465 ISBN 13: 9780465013463

Published by Basic Books, 1973

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

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Basic Books

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1973

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0465013465

ISBN 13

9780465013463

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Whether he's instructing us about the mathematical skills of four month old babies, describing the deep structure of language or explaining where one of the theories of Jean Piaget went askew, Keith Devlin is lucid. The man who taught us that mathematics is the science of making the invisible visible knows that the keys to good science writing are clarity and simplicity. Of course, it helps that this subject matter is One can't dispute the importance of improving our math skills or understanding the chicken and egg controversy of language evolution. Math Gene succeeds because the plainness of its exposition is match by the excitement of its ideas. Fine beach reading.

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