Project Gutenberg 2005-08-05 Public domain in the USA. 705 Conant, Levi L. (Levi Leonard) 1857 1916 Conant, Levi Leonard The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development Reading ease score: 73.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Hagen von Eitzen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development" by Levi L. Conant is a historical and scientific publication written in the late 19th century. This work delves into the origins and evolution of numerical systems across various cultures, exploring their significance in human development and communication. The likely topic of the book revolves around the concept of counting, the language of numbers, and how different societies have expressed numerical ideas. At the start of the book, Conant introduces the reader to the complex questions surrounding the origin of number systems and the ways primitive languages have approached counting. He discusses the limitations observed in various tribal languages, where concepts may only extend to basic numerals, often highlighting a disconnect in the ability to comprehend higher numbers. The opening chapters explore distinct numeral systems used by different cultures and assert that the idea of counting seems fundamental to humanity, tracing the evolution of numerical expression through both linguistic and practical methods. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Number concept QA Text Mathematics Browsing: Mathematics Browsing: Science - General 603680 603681 2024-12-07T10:15:48.421308 2023-09-07T11:01:46.988906 text/html text/html 559551 2020-12-12T07:46:32 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 149944 2020-12-12T07:46:32 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 242046 2024-12-07T10:16:08.810214 application/epub+zip 245466 2024-12-07T10:15:53.565273 application/epub+zip 225018 2024-12-07T10:15:51.226276 application/epub+zip 590207 2024-12-07T10:16:16.626139 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 551737 2024-12-07T10:16:07.205251 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 490576 2022-09-08T05:28:36.806185 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 358680 358574 2024-12-07T10:15:44.311310 2023-09-07T11:01:43.298886 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 357952 2020-12-12T07:46:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 128529 2020-12-12T07:46:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 358052 2020-12-12T07:46:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 128400 2020-12-12T07:46:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21208 2024-12-07T10:16:16.796125 application/rdf+xml 15733 2024-12-07T10:15:51.978264 image/jpeg 3490 2024-12-07T10:15:51.606273 image/jpeg 234419 2024-12-07T10:15:48.457318 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog