How Do We Count?

Calvin C. Clawson

Chapter Chapter 1 in The Mathematical Traveler, 1994, pp 5-17 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract How deeply are counting and numbers buried into the very nature of being human? Is counting a minor skill we acquire after our brains are fully developed? Is it entirely dependent on cultural learning? Or, is counting somehow “hard-wired” into our brains? Is counting so basic to human beings that it is a part of our genetic inheritance? In other words, how do we count?

Keywords: Associative Memory; Ordinal Number; Cardinal Number; Number Word; Manipulative Skill (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-6014-6_2

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