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The Maths Gene

How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip

by Keith J. Devlin

2000 328 pages eng

"In The Math Gene, mathematician Keith Devlin offers a breathtakingly new theory of language development that describes how language evolved in two stages and how its main purpose was not communication. He goes on to show that the ability to think mathematically arose out of the same symbol-manipula…

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