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Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Culture
Africa Counts Number and Pattern in African Culture
Author: Claudia Zaslavsky
This fascinating study of mathematical thinking among Saharan African peoples covers counting in words and in gestures; measuring time, distance, weight, and other quantities; number systems; patterns in music, poetry, art, and architecture; number magic and taboos, and much more. African games such as mankala and elaborate versions of tic-tac-...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781556523502
ISBN-10: 1556523505
Publication Date: 4/1/1999
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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