Veilige Betaling The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip – Keith Devlin

If people are endowed with a “number instinct” similar to the “language instinct”—as recent research suggests—then why can’t everyone do math? In The Math Gene, mathematician and popular writer Keith Devlin attacks both sides of this question.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. Devlin goes on to show that the ability to think mathematically arose out of the same symbol-manipulating…