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Native American Mathematics

Title:

Native American Mathematics Author: Michael P. Closs

Number Of Pages:

431 Subject: Art, Traditional Knowledge

Grade Level:

College, University Publication Date: 1997

ISBN:

0-292-71185-9 Publisher: University of Texas Press

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13 scholarly articles about Indigenous mathematics in the Americas: Native American Number System by Michael P. Closs; Numerical Representations in North American Rock Art by William Breen Murray; Some Notes on Quantification and Numerals in an Amazon Indian Language by Maurizio Covaz Gnerre; The Calendrical and Numerical Systems of the Nootka by William J. Folan; Chumash Numerals by Madison S. Beeler; Cultural Ecology of Mathematics: Ojibway and Inuit Hunters by J. Peter Denny; Tallies and the Ritual Use of Number in Ojibway Pictography by Michael P. Closs; A Survey of Aztec Numbers and Their Uses by Stanley E. Payne and Michael P. Closs; Decipherment and Some Implications of Aztec Numerical Glyphs by Herbert R. Harvey and Barbara J. Williams; Mathematical Ideas of the Incas by Marcia Ascher; The Mathematical Notation of the Ancient Maya by Michael P. Closs; The Zero in the Mayan Numerical Notation by A. Seidenberg; and In Search of Mesoamerican Geometry by Francine Vinette.