Can Fish Count?
What Animals Reveal about our Uniquely Mathematical Mind
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
28 June 2022
Summary
‘What I like best about this fascinating book is the detail. Brian Butterworth doesn’t just tell us stories of animals with numerical abilities: he tells us about the underlying science. Elegantly written and a joy to read’ - Professor Ian Stewart, author of What’s the Use? and Taming the Infinite
‘Full of thought-provoking studies and animal observations’ - Booklist
‘Enlightening and entertaining’ - Publishers Weekly
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529411256 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529411254 |
| Author: | Brian Butterworth |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 28 June 2022 |
| Weight: | 602g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 160mm x 38mm |
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Critics Review
His densely detailed but remarkably clear exploration, illuminated by fascinating experiments, maps our understanding of numeration in the animal kingdom
His densely detailed but remarkably clear exploration, illuminated by fascinating experiments, maps our understanding of numeration in the animal kingdom * Nature *
About The Author
Brian Butterworth
Brian Butterworth is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology at University College London.
He taught at Cambridge University for eight years and has held visiting appointments at MIT and the Max Planck Institute at Nijmegen. He is currently working on the neuroscience and the genetics of mathematical abilities and disabilities. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2002, and is the author of The Mathematical Brain, as well as of several academic books. He lives in London.
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