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AWAKENING OF GEOMETRICAL THOUGHT IN EARLY CULTURE by Paulus Gerdes MEP Publications, 2003, 184 pp. ISBN: 0-930656-75X
Awakening of Geometrical Thought in Early Culture is a book about how geometrical ideas can arise from labor. Paulus Gerdes, a Mozambican mathematics educator, argues that the process of making baskets, bags, tents, nets, pottery, and weapons naturally gives rise to the ideas of hexagons, rectangles, circles, right angles, and other fundamental geometric notions. For Gerdes,...