The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics by Stanislas Dehaene

The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics by Stanislas Dehaene

The Number Sense is an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Describing experiments that show that human infants have a rudimentary number sense, Stanislas Dehaene suggests that this sense is as basic as our perception of color, and that it is wired into the brain. Dehaene shows that it was the invention of symbolic systems of numerals that started us on the climb to higher mathematics. A fascinating look at the crossroads where numbers and neurons intersect, The Number Sense offers an intriguing tour of how the structure of the brain shapes our mathematical abilities, and how our mathematics opens up a window on the human mind.

Before becoming one of the world's most active researchers on the cognitive neuroscience of language and number processing in the human brain, Stanislas Dehaene was trained as a mathematician and psychologist. He is the author of The Number Sense and Reading in the Brain, both of which have been widely published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is based in France.

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ISBN 13	9780195132403
ISBN 10	0195132408
Title	The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics
Author	Stanislas Dehaene
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	1999-12-09
Number of pages	288
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