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| LC control number |
2002108312 |
| 015 ## - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER |
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| National bibliography number |
GBA2-70841 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0691070202 (acidfree paper) |
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(OCoLC)ocm50487466 |
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.A83 2002 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Ascher, Marcia, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1935- |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Mathematics elsewhere |
| Remainder of title |
an exploration of ideas across cultures |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Marcia Ascher |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Princeton, N.J. |
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Princeton University Press |
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c2002 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
x, 207 p. |
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ill., maps |
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24 cm |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
The logic of divination -- Marking time -- Cycles of time -- Models and maps -- Systems of relationships -- Figures on the threshold -- Epilogue. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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Presenting mathematical ideas of peoples from a variety of small-scale and traditional cultures, this book humanizes our view of mathematics and expands our conception of what is mathematical. Through engaging examples of how particular societies structure time, reach decisions about the future, make models and maps, systematize relationships, and create intriguing figures, Marcia Ascher demonstrates that traditional cultures have mathematical ideas that are far more substantial and sophisticated than is generally acknowledged. Malagasy divination rituals, for example, rely on complex algebraic algorithms. And some cultures use calendars far more abstract and elegant than our own. Ascher also shows that certain concepts assumed to be universal--that time is a single progression, for instance, or that equality is a static relationship--are not. The Basque notion of equivalence, for example, is a dynamic and temporal one not adequately captured by the familiar equal sign. Other ideas taken to be the exclusive province of professionally trained Western mathematicians are, in fact, shared by people in many societies. The ideas discussed come from geographically varied cultures, including the Borana and Malagasy of Africa, the Tongans and Marshall Islanders of Oceania, the Tamil of South India, the Basques of Western Europe, and the Balinese and Kodi of Indonesia. |
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Mathematics |
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History. |
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Social history |
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Mathematics. |
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Table of contents |
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<a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/prin031/2002108312.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/prin031/2002108312.html</a> |
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Publisher description |
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<a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2002108312-d.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2002108312-d.html</a> |
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