密克罗尼西亚的计数方法

IF 0.5 3区哲学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Historia Mathematica Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI:10.1016/j.hm.2021.04.002

Andrea Bender, Sieghard Beller

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摘要

在密克罗尼西亚的许多语言中，在前殖民时期发展出了将他们的计数系统扩展到远远超出想象的数字的聪明方法。在这里，我们提供了这些系统的详尽概述，突出了它们的特征，并说明了它们的一些最有趣的特性。基于对现有数据的批判性评估以及对典型案例和特殊性的深入分析，我们得出了一些更普遍的模式的推论，这些模式表明密克罗尼西亚及其以外地区的特定计数方法具有相当悠久的传统。

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Ways of counting in Micronesia

In many languages in Micronesia, clever ways of extending their counting systems to numbers far beyond imagination were developed in precolonial times. Here, we provide an exhaustive overview of these systems, highlight their characteristics, and account for some of their most intriguing features. Based on a critical assessment of the available data and the in-depth analysis of both paradigmatic cases and peculiarities, we draw inferences about some more general patterns that suggest a rather long tradition of specific ways of counting both in Micronesia and the area beyond.

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Historia Mathematica 数学-科学史与科学哲学

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1.10

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审稿时长

72 days

期刊介绍： Historia Mathematica publishes historical scholarship on mathematics and its development in all cultures and time periods. In particular, the journal encourages informed studies on mathematicians and their work in historical context, on the histories of institutions and organizations supportive of the mathematical endeavor, on historiographical topics in the history of mathematics, and on the interrelations between mathematical ideas, science, and the broader culture.