Numerical Notation

Author : Stephen Chrisomalis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139485333

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This book is a cross-cultural reference volume of all attested numerical notation systems (graphic, non-phonetic systems for representing numbers), encompassing more than 100 such systems used over the past 5,500 years. Using a typology that defies progressive, unilinear evolutionary models of change, Stephen Chrisomalis identifies five basic types of numerical notation systems, using a cultural phylogenetic framework to show relationships between systems and to create a general theory of change in numerical systems. Numerical notation systems are primarily representational systems, not computational technologies. Cognitive factors that help explain how numerical systems change relate to general principles, such as conciseness or avoidance of ambiguity, which apply also to writing systems. The transformation and replacement of numerical notation systems relates to specific social, economic, and technological changes, such as the development of the printing press or the expansion of the global world-system.

Author : Stephen Chrisomalis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-18
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780521878180

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Numerical Notation by Stephen Chrisomalis Pdf

This book is a cross-cultural reference volume of all attested numerical notation systems, encompassing more than 100 such systems used over the past 5,500 years. Using a typology that defies unilinear evolutionary models, Stephen Chrisomalis identifies five basic types of numerical notation systems, tracks relationships between systems, and creates a general model of change that incorporates social, historical, and cognitive factors.

Author : S. S. Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Computer programming
ISBN : UOM:39015094991703

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Systems of Numerical Notation by S. S. Harris Pdf

Author : Floris Schuiling,Emily Payne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000581201

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Material Cultures of Music Notation by Floris Schuiling,Emily Payne Pdf

Material Cultures of Music Notation brings together a collection of essays that explore a fundamental question in the current landscape of musicology: how can writing and reading music be understood as concrete, material practices in a wider cultural context? Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches from musicology, media studies, performance studies, and more, the chapters in this volume offer a wide array of new perspectives that foreground the materiality of music notation. From digital scores to the transmission of manuscripts in the Middle Ages, the volume deliberately disrupts boundaries of discipline, historical period, genre, and tradition, by approaching notation's materiality through four key interrelated themes: knowledge, the body, social relations, and technology. Together, the chapters capture vital new work in an essential emerging area of scholarship.

Author : Alejandro L. Madrid
Publisher : Currents in Latin American and
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190215781

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In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13 by Alejandro L. Madrid Pdf

In the 1920s, Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875-1965) developed a microtonal system he metaphorically called El Sonido 13 (The 13th Sound). Although his pioneering role as one of the first proponents of microtonality gave him a cult figure status among European avant-garde circles in the 1960s and 1970s, his music and legacy have remained largely ignored by scholars and critics. This book explores his ideas not only in relation to the historical moments of their inception but also in relation to the various cultural projects that kept them alive and resignified them into the 21st century.

Author : Stanislas Dehaene
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780199910397

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The Number Sense by Stanislas Dehaene Pdf

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. Dehaene begins with the eye-opening discovery that animals--including rats, pigeons, raccoons, and chimpanzees--can perform simple mathematical calculations, and that human infants also have a rudimentary number sense. Dehaene suggests that this rudimentary number sense is as basic to the way the brain understands the world as our perception of color or of objects in space, and, like these other abilities, our number sense is wired into the brain. These are but a few of the wealth of fascinating observations contained here. We also discover, for example, that because Chinese names for numbers are so short, Chinese people can remember up to nine or ten digits at a time--English-speaking people can only remember seven. The book also explores the unique abilities of idiot savants and mathematical geniuses, and we meet people whose minute brain lesions render their mathematical ability useless. This new and completely updated edition includes all of the most recent scientific data on how numbers are encoded by single neurons, and which brain areas activate when we perform calculations. Perhaps most important, The Number Sense reaches many provocative conclusions that will intrigue anyone interested in learning, mathematics, or the mind. "A delight." --Ian Stewart, New Scientist "Read The Number Sense for its rich insights into matters as varying as the cuneiform depiction of numbers, why Jean Piaget's theory of stages in infant learning is wrong, and to discover the brain regions involved in the number sense." --The New York Times Book Review "Dehaene weaves the latest technical research into a remarkably lucid and engrossing investigation. Even readers normally indifferent to mathematics will find themselves marveling at the wonder of minds making numbers." --Booklist

Author : Roi Cohen Kadosh,Ann Dowker
Publisher : Oxford Library of Psychology
Page : 1217 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199642342

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The Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition by Roi Cohen Kadosh,Ann Dowker Pdf

How do we understand numbers? Do animals and babies have numerical abilities? Why do some people fail to grasp numbers, and how we can improve numerical understanding? Numbers are vital to so many areas of life: in science, economics, sports, education, and many aspects of everyday life from infancy onwards. Numerical cognition is a vibrant area that brings together scientists from different and diverse research areas (e.g., neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, anthropology, education, and neuroscience) using different methodological approaches (e.g., behavioral studies of healthy children and adults and of patients; electrophysiology and brain imaging studies in humans; single-cell neurophysiology in non-human primates, habituation studies in human infants and animals, and computer modeling). While the study of numerical cognition had been relatively neglected for a long time, during the last decade there has been an explosion of studies and new findings. This has resulted in an enormous advance in our understanding of the neural and cognitive mechanisms of numerical cognition. In addition, there has recently been increasing interest and concern about pupils' mathematical achievement in many countries, resulting in attempts to use research to guide mathematics instruction in schools, and to develop interventions for children with mathematical difficulties. This handbook brings together the different research areas that make up the field of numerical cognition in one comprehensive and authoritative volume. The chapters provide a broad and extensive review that is written in an accessible form for scholars and students, as well as educationalists, clinicians, and policy makers. The book covers the most important aspects of research on numerical cognition from the areas of development psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and rehabilitation, learning disabilities, human and animal cognition and neuroscience, computational modeling, education and individual differences, and philosophy. Containing more than 60 chapters by leading specialists in their fields, the Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition is a state-of-the-art review of the current literature.

Author : Ulrich Ammon,Norbert Dittmar,Klaus J. Mattheier,Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110199871

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Sociolinguistics / Soziolinguistik. Volume 3 by Ulrich Ammon,Norbert Dittmar,Klaus J. Mattheier,Peter Trudgill Pdf

No detailed description available for "SOCIOLINGUISTICS (AMMON) 3.TLBD HSK 3.3 2A E-BOOK".

Author : Robert Potts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Arithmetic
ISBN : NLS:V000658792

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Elementary Arithmetic by Robert Potts Pdf

Author : Arthur Lefevre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Algebra
ISBN : UCAL:$B531991

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Number and Its Algebra by Arthur Lefevre Pdf

Author : Salikoko S. Mufwene,François Pellegrino,Christophe Coupé
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107054370

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Complexity in Language by Salikoko S. Mufwene,François Pellegrino,Christophe Coupé Pdf

This book is about dynamical, social-interactional aspects of the emergence of complexity in language, explained by linguists, cognitivists, and modelers.

Author : Alexander Melville Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Elocution
ISBN : UCAL:$B258032

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Elocutionary Manual by Alexander Melville Bell Pdf

Author : United States Employment Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Machine-tools
ISBN : UIUC:30112011760367

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Technical Report on Occupations in Numerically Controlled Metal-cutting Machining by United States Employment Service Pdf

Collection of job descriptions in respect of machine operators of various machine tools incorporating numerical control devices (automatic control) in the metalworking industry in the USA. Selected bibliography on job analysis, occupational titles, etc. Pp. 90 and 91.

Author : Ester Salgarella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108479387

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Aegean Linear Script(s) by Ester Salgarella Pdf

Interdisciplinary examination of the transmission process of Linear A to Linear B script.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11538669

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The Nautical Magazine and Journal of the Royal Naval Reserve by Anonim Pdf