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by Marcia Ascher,Robert Ascher
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ISBN: 0486295540 Dover Publications Price: $15.95 |
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Unique, thought-provoking study discusses quipu, an accounting system employing knotted, colored cords, used by Incas to transmit information. Cultural context, mathematics involved, quipu-maker in Inca society, and even how to make a quipu. Fascinating for anthropologists, ethnologists, students, general readers. Over 125 photos and illustrations.
Table of Contents for Mathematics of the Incas: Code of the Quipu
| 1 Odyssey | |||||||
| 2 How to Make a Quipu | |||||||
| 3 Inca Insistence | |||||||
| 4 The Quipumaker | |||||||
| 5 "Format, Category, and Summation" | |||||||
| 6 Hierarchy and Pattern | |||||||
| 7 Arithmetical Ideas and Recurrent Numbers | |||||||
| 8 A Piece of String |