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Author_Marcia Ascher
Basic Design Unit
Caroline Island
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cross-cultural mathematics
Design Symmetry
Dihedral Group
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Eulerian Paths
Glide Reflect
Horizontal Reflection
ideas
Inca Quipus
indigenous mathematical systems
kinship logic analysis
Main Cord
Marcia Ascher
mathematical
mathematical concepts in non-Western societies
Mathematical Ideas
Native Australians
Number Words
Odd Vertices
Peach Stones
Positional System
Rafter Patterns
Rotational Symmetry
Row Labeled
spatial reasoning techniques
Star Compass
Strip Patterns
symbolic number representation
Top Cords
traditional games strategy
Vertical Reflection
Vice Versa
Western Mathematics
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780412989414
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 178 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this truly one-of-a-kind book, Ascher introduces the mathematical ideas of people in traditional, or "small-scale", cultures often omitted from discussion of mathematics. Topics such as "Numbers: Words and Symbols", "Tracing Graphs in the Sand", "The Logic of Kin Relations", "Chance and Strategy in Games and Puzzles", and "The Organization and Modeling of Space" are traced in various cultures including the Inuit, Navajo, and Iroquois of North America; the Inca of South America; the Malekula, Warlpiri, Maori, and Caroline Islanders of Oceania, and the Tshokwe, Bushoong, and Kpelle of Africa.
As Ascher explores mathematical ideas involving numbers, logic, spatial configuration, and the organization of these into systems and structures, readers gain both a broader understanding and anappreciation for the idease of other peoples.
