The number sense: how the mind creates mathematics

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dehaene, Stanislas
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:1a ed, revisada
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Our numerical heritage
  • Beyond approximation
  • Of neurons and numbers
  • The contemporary science of number and brain
  • Talented and gifted animals
  • Babies who count
  • The adult number line
  • The language of numbers
  • Small heads for big calculations
  • Geniuses and prodigies
  • Losing number sense
  • The computing brain
  • What is a number?
  • Epilogue.