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Arithmetic (Paperback)
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Arithmetic (Paperback)
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List price R539
Loot Price R496
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You Save R43 (8%)
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"Inspiring and informative...deserves to be widely read." -Wall
Street Journal "This fun book offers a philosophical take on number
systems and revels in the beauty of math." -Science News Because we
have ten fingers, grouping by ten seems natural, but twelve would
be better for divisibility, and eight is well suited to repeated
halving. Grouping by two, as in binary code, has turned out to have
its own remarkable advantages. Paul Lockhart presents arithmetic
not as rote manipulation of numbers-a practical if mundane branch
of knowledge best suited for filling out tax forms-but as a
fascinating, sometimes surprising intellectual craft that arises
from our desire to add, divide, and multiply important things.
Passionate and entertaining, Arithmetic invites us to experience
the beauty of mathematics through the eyes of a beguiling teacher.
"A nuanced understanding of working with numbers, gently connecting
procedures that we once learned by rote with intuitions long since
muddled by education... Lockhart presents arithmetic as a
pleasurable pastime, and describes it as a craft like knitting."
-Jonathon Keats, New Scientist "What are numbers, how did they
arise, why did our ancestors invent them, and how did they
represent them? They are, after all, one of humankind's most
brilliant inventions, arguably having greater impact on our lives
than the wheel. Lockhart recounts their fascinating story... A
wonderful book." -Keith Devlin, author of Finding Fibonacci
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