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2 - Converging Perspectives on Numbers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2023

Karenleigh A. Overmann
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Tom Wynn
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
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Summary

Numbers can be studied from a lot of different perspectives. This is both part of their fascination and a unique interdisciplinary challenge, since few of those perspectives incorporate insights from the other fields that also study numbers. This leaves the endeavor a bit fractured and disconnected, bringing to mind the old Buddhist parable about the blind men and the elephant: Everyone has a bit of solid evidence, and no one quite has the big picture.

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The Materiality of Numbers
Emergence and Elaboration from Prehistory to Present
, pp. 23 - 42
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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