Arithmetic

✍ Scribed by Paul Lockhart

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 240
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

LockhartPaul:

Paul Lockhart teaches mathematics at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, New York.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Dear Reader
Things
Language
Repetition
Three Tribes
Egypt
Rome
China and Japan
India
Europe
Multiplication
Division
Machines
Fractions
Negative Numbers
The Art of Counting
Afterword
Index

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