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Culture and cognition
- Introduction
- The Plurality of Mathematics
- Number systems
- Counting and problem solving
- Mathematical thinking in its cultural context
- Non-Numerical and Numerical-Oriented Cultures
- “Primitive” Thought and the Myth of Progress
- Thinking as Cognitive Praxis
- Power in Culture: The Politics of Plato’s Forms
- Synthesis and Concluding Remarks
- Notes
- References
Abstract
Like food taboos, mathematics is not free of other, very significant aspects of culture.
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