Africa and mathematics : from colonial findings back to the Ishango rods / Dirk Huylebrouck.

This volume on ethnomathematics in Central Africa fills a gap in the current literature, focusing on a region rarely explored by other publications. It highlights the discovery of the Ishango rod, which was found to be the oldest mathematical tool in humanity's history, thereby shifting the ori...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Huylebrouck, D. (Dirk) (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature, [2019]
Series:	Mathematics, culture, and the arts.
Subjects:	Ethnomathematics > Africa, Central.