Africa and Mathematics From Colonial Findings Back to the Ishango Rods /

• Main Author: Huylebrouck, Dirk (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Mathematics, Culture, and the Arts,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; Social sciences.; Africa, Sub-Saharan-History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences.; History of Sub-Saharan Africa.

This volume on ethnomathematics in Central Africa fills a gap in the current literature, focusing on a region rarely explored by other publications. It highlights the discovery of the Ishango rod, which was found to be the oldest mathematical tool in humanity's history, thereby shifting the ori...