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Geometry from Africa: Mathematical and Educational Explorations, Paulus Gerdes, 1999. 224 pp., $39.95 paper. ISBN 088385-715-4. Mathematical
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This book may be the most complete volume available on the ethnomathematics of Africa. Most important, Gerdes definitively establishes that Africa is indeed the "cradle of world...