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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Huylebrouck, Dirk (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Mathematics, Culture, and the Arts,
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.