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Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal About Our Uniquely Mathematical Minds

by Brian Butterworth

An entertaining investigation of the numerical abilities of animals and our own appetite for arithmetic The philosopher Bertrand Russell once observed that realizing that a pair of apples and the passage of two days could somehow both be represented by the concept we call “two” was one of the most astonishing discoveries anyone had ever made. So what do we m

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9781541620810