How Much Mathematics Is Hardwired, If Any at All
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The investigation of mathematical cognition in developmental psychology has been primarily confined to the study of numerical cognition— basic facts involving quantity, such as the acquisition of number words and some competences for numerical estimation and calculation. But mathematics is much more than simple counting numbers and basic arithmetic. Mathematics, seen by many as the queen of sciences, is a unique and peculiar body of knowledge. It is objective, precise, relational, stable, robust, consistent, and highly effective in modeling aspects of the world—a feature expressed a century ago by the Hungarian physicist Eugene Wigner as the “unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics” (Wigner, 1960). Importantly, mathematics is quintessentially abstract—the very entities that constitute this domain are idealized
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تاریخ انتشار 2016