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  title info:
    title: Africa and Mathematics
    sub title: From Colonial Findings Back to the Ishango Rods
  name:
    name part: Huylebrouck, Dirk.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 229 p. 217 illus., 110 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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 origin of mathematics to the heart of Africa, and explores the different scientific hypotheses that emerged as a result. While it contains some high-level mathematics, the non-mathematical reader can easily skip these portions and enjoy the book's survey of African history, culture, and art.
  table of contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Mathematics in the Heart of Africa -- 1. Rationale and Sources -- 2. Storytelling and Music -- 3. Creative Counting -- 4. Drawings -- 5. Reasoning Without Writing -- 6. Multiplication in the Yoruba and "Ethiopian" Way -- Part II: The Ishango Rod(s) -- 7. The Ishango Site -- 8. Mathematical Carvings -- 9. Missing Link -- 10. Not Out of Africa -- 11. A Second Rod -- Part III: Epilogue -- 12. Museum Visit, Teaching, Research -- References.
  note: by Dirk Huylebrouck.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Africa, Sub-Saharan-History
  subject:
    topic: History of Mathematical Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: History of Sub-Saharan Africa
  classification: QA21-27
  classification: 510.9
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Mathematics, Culture, and the Arts
  identifier: 9783030040376
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04037-6
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    record creation date: 190330
    record change date: 20191220130102.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-04037-6