The Number Sense by Stanislas Dehaene

The Number Sense by Stanislas Dehaene

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Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but recent discoveries have allowed scientists to watch the living mind at work. In this text, the author offers readers a look at these breakthroughs in an exploration of the mathematical mind.

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The Number Sense by Stanislas Dehaene

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting scientific discoveries, some aided by new imaging techniques - which allow us for the first time to watch the living mind at work - and others by ingenious experiments conducted by researchers all over the world. There are still perplexing mysteries - how, for instance, do idiot savants perform almost miraculous mathematical feats? - but the picture is growing steadily clearer. In this work, Stanislas Dehaene offers readers a look at these recent discoveries, in an exploration of the mathematical 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 9780195110043
ISBN 10 0195110048
Title The Number Sense
Author Stanislas Dehaene
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher OUP India
Year published 1998-07-02
Number of pages 288
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