Stanislas Dehaene (Professor, Professor, College de France, Paris,

The Number Sense

How the Mind Creates Mathematics, Revised and Updated Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world. Now, in The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a fascinating look at this recent research, in an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Updated Edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9780199753871
• ISBN-10: 0199753873
• Artikelnr.: 32731347

Autorenporträt

Stanislas Dehaene teaches at the College de France and is Director of the Cognitive Neuroimaging Research Unit at INSERM.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
Part I: Our Numerical Heritage
Chapter 1: Talented and Gifted Animals
Chapter 2: Babies Who Count
Chapter 3: The Adult Number Line
Part II: Beyond Approximation
Chapter 4: The Language of Numbers
Chapter 5: Small Heads for Big Calculations
Chapter 6: Geniuses and Prodigies
Part III: Of Neurons and Numbers
Chapter 7: Losing Number Sense
Chapter 8: The Computing Brain
Chapter 9: What Is a Number?
Epilogue. The Contemporary Science of Number and Brain
Appendix
Notes and References
Bibliography
Main books consulted
Useful web resources
Detailed bibliography
Index