5. How Did Human Beings Acquire the Ability to do Mathematics?

Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible

5. How Did Human Beings Acquire the Ability to do Mathematics? (October 29, 2012)

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Keith Devlin concludes the course by discussing the development of mathematical cognition in humans as well as the millennium problems. (October 29, 2012)

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