SCIENCE'S COMPASS PERSPECTIVES: NEUROSCIENCE Knowledge of Number: Its Evolution and Ontogeny
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M athematical concepts and systems of notation are intertwined with human cultural history. The discovery (or invention) of 0, understanding of negative, rational, and real numbers, and development of the calculus took place over thousands of years. But what of those most fundamental of mathematical objects, the positive integers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...? Until recently, the consensus was that the capacity to represent the positive integers was also the product of culture, dependent on the
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