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

The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip

Keith Devlin

352 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction mathematics philosophy psychology informative slow-paced
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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 questio...

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