Arithmetic
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| Books | |
| Author | Paul Lockhart |
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| ISBN | 0674972236 |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Condition | Used - Very Good |
| Condition Description | |
| Category | Physical Science & Medicine |
| Publisher | Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press |
| Publication Date | August 2017 |
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.