Native american mathematics
Spanning time from the prehistoric to the present, the thirteen essays in this volume attest to the variety of mathematical development present in the Americas.
Print Book, English, 1997
University of Texas Press, Austin, 1997
431 p. ; 23 cm
9780292711853, 0292711859
912785107
Preface1. Native American Number Systems (Michael P. Closs)2. Numerical Representations in North American Rock Art (William Breen Murray)3. Some Notes on Quantification and Numerals in an Amazon Indian Language (Maurizio Covaz Gnerre)4. The Calendrical and Numerical Systems of the Nootka (William J. Folan)5. Chumash Numerals (Madison S. Beeler)6. Cultural Ecology of Mathematics: Ojibway and Inuit Hunters (J. Peter Denny)7. Tallies and the Ritual Use of Number in Ojibway Pictography (Michael P. Closs)8. A Survey of Aztec Numbers and Their Uses (Stanley E. Payne and Michael P. Closs)9. Decipherment and Some Implications of Aztec Numerical Glyphs (Herbert R. Harvey and Barbara J. Williams)10. Mathematical Ideas of the Incas (Marcia Ascher)11. The Mathematical Notation of the Ancient Maya (Michael P. Closs)12. The Zero in the Mayan Numerical Notation (A. Seidenberg)13. In Search of Mesoamerican Geometry (Francine Vinette)References