The Number Concept (eBook)

Levi L. Conant (Autor)

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2019
204 Seiten
Books on Demand (Verlag)
978-3-7504-2545-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Among the speculative questions which arise in connection with the study of arithmetic from a historical standpoint, the origin of number is one that has provoked much lively discussion, and has led to a great amount of learned research among the primitive and savage languages of the human race. A few simple considerations will, however, show that such research must necessarily leave this question entirely unsettled, and will indicate clearly that it is, from the very nature of things, a question to which no definite and final answer can be given.

Among the barbarous tribes whose languages have been studied, even in a most cursory manner, none have ever been discovered which did not show some familiarity with the number concept. The knowledge thus indicated has often proved to be most limited; not extending beyond the numbers 1 and 2, or 1, 2, and 3.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.12.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
• Schlagworte: Math • Mathematical History • Science
• ISBN-10: 3-7504-2545-0 / 3750425450
• ISBN-13: 978-3-7504-2545-3 / 9783750425453