剧情简介:Where does our mathematical ability come from? Our prehistoric ancestors' brains were essentially the same as ours, so they must have had the same underlying ability. What purpose could it serve in 50,000 BC? And what exactly goes on in our brains when we multiply 15 by 36 or prove Fermat's Last Theorem? The answer, according to Keith Devlin, is closely related to the evolution...(展开全部)
作者:Keith J·Devlin
出版社:Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
ISBN:9780753811269