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Paul Lockhart reveals arithmetic not as the rote manipulation of numbers but as a set of ideas that exhibit the surprising behaviors usually reserved for higher branches of mathematics. In this entertaining survey, he explores the nature of counting and different number systems-Western and non-Western-and weighs the pluses and minuses of each.
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Arithmetic, Paul Lockhart
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- Released
- 2017
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- Title
- Arithmetic
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Paul Lockhart
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0674972236
- ISBN13
- 9780674972230
- Series
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- Paul Lockhart reveals arithmetic not as the rote manipulation of numbers but as a set of ideas that exhibit the surprising behaviors usually reserved for higher branches of mathematics. In this entertaining survey, he explores the nature of counting and different number systems-Western and non-Western-and weighs the pluses and minuses of each.