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...

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.