Caleb Everett: 1 book
Numbers and the Making of Us
Counting and the Course of Human Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Number concepts are a human invention developed and refined over millennia. They allow us to grasp quantities precisely: recent research shows that most specific quantities are not perceived in the absence of a number system. Numbers are not innate or universal; yet without them, the world as we know it would not exist.
