Arithmetic by Paul Lockhart

Arithmetic

Paul Lockhart

nonfiction mathematics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

224 pages | first published 2017

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Because evolution endowed humans with a complement of ten fingers, a grouping size of ten seems natural to us, perhaps even ideal. But from the perspective of mathematics, groupings of ten are arbitrary, and can have serious shortcomings. Twelve w...
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