Author: Stanislas Dehaene
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199753873
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
"Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete. In The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers readers an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Using research showing that human infants have a rudimentary number sense, Dehaene suggests that this sense is as basic as our perception of color, and that it is wired into the brain. But how then did we leap from this basic number ability to trigonometry, calculus, and beyond? Dehaene shows that it was the invention of symbolic systems of numerals that started us on the climb to higher mathematics. Tracing the history of numbers, we learn that in early times, people indicated numbers by pointing to part of their bodies, and how Roman numerals were replaced by modern numbers. On the way, we also discover many fascinating facts: for example, because Chinese names for numbers are short, Chinese people can remember up to nine or ten digits at a time, while English-speaking people can only remember seven. 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 math can open up a window on the human mind"--Provided by publisher.
The Number Sense
Author: Stanislas Dehaene
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199753873
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
"Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete. In The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers readers an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Using research showing that human infants have a rudimentary number sense, Dehaene suggests that this sense is as basic as our perception of color, and that it is wired into the brain. But how then did we leap from this basic number ability to trigonometry, calculus, and beyond? Dehaene shows that it was the invention of symbolic systems of numerals that started us on the climb to higher mathematics. Tracing the history of numbers, we learn that in early times, people indicated numbers by pointing to part of their bodies, and how Roman numerals were replaced by modern numbers. On the way, we also discover many fascinating facts: for example, because Chinese names for numbers are short, Chinese people can remember up to nine or ten digits at a time, while English-speaking people can only remember seven. 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 math can open up a window on the human mind"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199753873
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
"Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete. In The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers readers an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Using research showing that human infants have a rudimentary number sense, Dehaene suggests that this sense is as basic as our perception of color, and that it is wired into the brain. But how then did we leap from this basic number ability to trigonometry, calculus, and beyond? Dehaene shows that it was the invention of symbolic systems of numerals that started us on the climb to higher mathematics. Tracing the history of numbers, we learn that in early times, people indicated numbers by pointing to part of their bodies, and how Roman numerals were replaced by modern numbers. On the way, we also discover many fascinating facts: for example, because Chinese names for numbers are short, Chinese people can remember up to nine or ten digits at a time, while English-speaking people can only remember seven. 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 math can open up a window on the human mind"--Provided by publisher.
Lawn Mowing Appointment Book
Author: C. B. CB Press
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781094735665
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Easily keep track of who your customers are, what time you have scheduled them, how long the job takes, customer information and any notes required for the job with this easy to use book. The perfect book for those who own their own Lawn Mower Business, Landscape Business, and Lawn Maintenance Business.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781094735665
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Easily keep track of who your customers are, what time you have scheduled them, how long the job takes, customer information and any notes required for the job with this easy to use book. The perfect book for those who own their own Lawn Mower Business, Landscape Business, and Lawn Maintenance Business.
City Lights Stories
Author: A. Collection of Stories by Regenerate
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781475977998
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
You are holding a collection of stories, the aim of this collection is to equip and inspire you to make a positive impact in your own community, through relationships and creative initiatives. In this material, you will read about Dave and Will who developed gardens on wasteland in inner city London council estates, encouraging residents to be part of the process of renewal and creativity by growing plants and vegetables. Will hosts community harvest feasts, bringing together local residents to eat their own locally-grown produce. Andy in his 20s, started a lunch club for isolated elderly people, rallying his student friends to help serve homemade meals in a borrowed church hall. Pauline responded to a news bulletin about the lack of housing for refugees and asylum seekers, by setting up homes across North London to provide safe housing. Annie set up regular meals in her church building for homeless people and rough sleepers. Mark started a football club for local lads from an estate in London, most of whom were from extremely difficult backgrounds and not in education or employment. Countless others have weeded gardens for families referred by social services, mentored children in foster care and painted a wall in a refuge. Abroad, Mick and Ruby moved into an inner city slum community in the heart of Manilla for 9 years with their young children. At the heart of City Lights are stories and friendships. Find out more about City Lights. regenerateuk.co.uk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781475977998
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
You are holding a collection of stories, the aim of this collection is to equip and inspire you to make a positive impact in your own community, through relationships and creative initiatives. In this material, you will read about Dave and Will who developed gardens on wasteland in inner city London council estates, encouraging residents to be part of the process of renewal and creativity by growing plants and vegetables. Will hosts community harvest feasts, bringing together local residents to eat their own locally-grown produce. Andy in his 20s, started a lunch club for isolated elderly people, rallying his student friends to help serve homemade meals in a borrowed church hall. Pauline responded to a news bulletin about the lack of housing for refugees and asylum seekers, by setting up homes across North London to provide safe housing. Annie set up regular meals in her church building for homeless people and rough sleepers. Mark started a football club for local lads from an estate in London, most of whom were from extremely difficult backgrounds and not in education or employment. Countless others have weeded gardens for families referred by social services, mentored children in foster care and painted a wall in a refuge. Abroad, Mick and Ruby moved into an inner city slum community in the heart of Manilla for 9 years with their young children. At the heart of City Lights are stories and friendships. Find out more about City Lights. regenerateuk.co.uk
Theodore: Bug Insect Weekly Planer Book Notebook Journal Book 120 Pages 6x9
Author: Rob Cole
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781091898011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Weekly Action Planner, featuring 120 pages with a matte finish cover. Perfect for note taking, diary entry, journal writing, to do list or daily schedules.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781091898011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Weekly Action Planner, featuring 120 pages with a matte finish cover. Perfect for note taking, diary entry, journal writing, to do list or daily schedules.
Cameron: Bug Insect Weekly Planer Book Notebook Journal Book 120 Pages 6x9
Author: Rob Cole
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781091864962
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Weekly Action Planner, featuring 120 pages with a matte finish cover. Perfect for note taking, diary entry, journal writing, to do list or daily schedules.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781091864962
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Weekly Action Planner, featuring 120 pages with a matte finish cover. Perfect for note taking, diary entry, journal writing, to do list or daily schedules.
Academonia
Author: Dodie Bellamy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Fiction. Cultural Writing. Essays. A series of essays, ACADEMONIA is also an epic narrative of survival against institutional deadening and the proscriptiveness that shoots the young writer like poison darts from all sides. Here Bellamy, "explores the prickly intersection among these [institutional] spaces as it moves through institutions such as the academy, the experimental writing communities of the Bay Area, feminist and sexual identities, and group therapy. Continuing the work that she began in The Letters of Mina Harker pushing memoir and confession out of its safety zones and into its difficulties, this book provokes as it critiques and it critiques and yet at the same time manages to delight with its hope"-Juliana Spahr.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Fiction. Cultural Writing. Essays. A series of essays, ACADEMONIA is also an epic narrative of survival against institutional deadening and the proscriptiveness that shoots the young writer like poison darts from all sides. Here Bellamy, "explores the prickly intersection among these [institutional] spaces as it moves through institutions such as the academy, the experimental writing communities of the Bay Area, feminist and sexual identities, and group therapy. Continuing the work that she began in The Letters of Mina Harker pushing memoir and confession out of its safety zones and into its difficulties, this book provokes as it critiques and it critiques and yet at the same time manages to delight with its hope"-Juliana Spahr.
Letters from Aldenderry
Author: Philip Nikolayev
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844712793
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry has no precedent for the voice in Letters from Aldenderry. Colloquial and demotic, it takes pride and pleasure in the sound of American, but it is emphatically "from elsewhere" in its joyful symmetries. What astounds is the multiplicity of Nikolayev's registers and his command of perfect verbal pitch. This is cosmopolitan one-man theater at its best. Life is all there, its whole nine yards from birth to shock to recovery, from thoughtful conversation and intimacies of the soul to standup guffaws and punning provocation. Filled with an organic fusion of extremes, with healthy experimentation and a history of poetic forms that looms behind every line, this book is an apotheosis of freedom that shuts the gaping gulf between lyric and avant-garde. The poems are about what has been lost and found and is worth keeping: creative solitude, empathy, love, pain and laughter, the poetic experience itself. Words do not swallow the reader in an avalanche of consciousness, they flow to a varied musical rhythm and make sense. The overall impression is integral and wholesome. The work succeeds at modeling a persuasive modern hero--a far-flung, uprooted émigré intellectual who makes his home in diverse languages and cultures and stares at the world through a unique pair of eyes. This type is among the most interesting in current literature, fraught as it is with multiple biography, dialectics, contradictions. A poet can cultivate compassion to the point of sheer self-transformation. Nikolayev is crazy in the best possible sense of the word.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844712793
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry has no precedent for the voice in Letters from Aldenderry. Colloquial and demotic, it takes pride and pleasure in the sound of American, but it is emphatically "from elsewhere" in its joyful symmetries. What astounds is the multiplicity of Nikolayev's registers and his command of perfect verbal pitch. This is cosmopolitan one-man theater at its best. Life is all there, its whole nine yards from birth to shock to recovery, from thoughtful conversation and intimacies of the soul to standup guffaws and punning provocation. Filled with an organic fusion of extremes, with healthy experimentation and a history of poetic forms that looms behind every line, this book is an apotheosis of freedom that shuts the gaping gulf between lyric and avant-garde. The poems are about what has been lost and found and is worth keeping: creative solitude, empathy, love, pain and laughter, the poetic experience itself. Words do not swallow the reader in an avalanche of consciousness, they flow to a varied musical rhythm and make sense. The overall impression is integral and wholesome. The work succeeds at modeling a persuasive modern hero--a far-flung, uprooted émigré intellectual who makes his home in diverse languages and cultures and stares at the world through a unique pair of eyes. This type is among the most interesting in current literature, fraught as it is with multiple biography, dialectics, contradictions. A poet can cultivate compassion to the point of sheer self-transformation. Nikolayev is crazy in the best possible sense of the word.
Cassidy: Bug Insect Weekly Planer Book Notebook Journal Book 120 Pages 6x9
Author: Rob Cole
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781091870482
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Weekly Action Planner, featuring 120 pages with a matte finish cover. Perfect for note taking, diary entry, journal writing, to do list or daily schedules.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781091870482
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Weekly Action Planner, featuring 120 pages with a matte finish cover. Perfect for note taking, diary entry, journal writing, to do list or daily schedules.
Kirsten: Bug Insect Comic Book Notebook Journal Book 120 Pages 6x9
Author: Rob Cole
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781091796669
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Blank comic book each page featuring a variation of comic book cells to fill in and tell your own adventure story. Journal Notebook featuring 120 pages 6"x9"
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781091796669
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Blank comic book each page featuring a variation of comic book cells to fill in and tell your own adventure story. Journal Notebook featuring 120 pages 6"x9"
Logan: Bug Insect Comic Book Notebook Journal Book 120 Pages 6x9
Author: Rob Cole
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781091797130
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Blank comic book each page featuring a variation of comic book cells to fill in and tell your own adventure story. Journal Notebook featuring 120 pages 6"x9"
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781091797130
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Blank comic book each page featuring a variation of comic book cells to fill in and tell your own adventure story. Journal Notebook featuring 120 pages 6"x9"