"Natural Born Mathematicians" - an excerpt:
"We are born with a core sense of cardinal number", says neuropsychologist Brian Butterworth, author of The mathematical brain, reviewed in this issue of Plus. "We understand that sets have a cardinality, that is, that collections have a number associated with them and it doesn't really matter what the members of that set are. Infants, even in the first week of life, notice when the number of things that they're looking at changes.
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2 comments:
I wish the author did not equate having basic mathematical understanding with being a mathematician. Too many calculus students think that not being mathematicians, they cannot be expected to have any understanding of math.
Hear, hear.
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