In The Art of More we learn that counting is not a skill humans are born with. In fact, without education few people would be able to count past three! But Michael Brooks show us that if we had never taught ourselves to use numbers, we wouldn’t have maps, music, architecture, trade, navigation, or art. He wants to take the fear out of numbers and replace it with awe. This history of counting and numbers is a strong start toward rehabilitating our relationship with math.
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