A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic
by
Gary Urton, Primitivo Nina Llanos
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Unraveling all the mysteries of the khipu—the knotted string device used by the Inka to record both statistical data and narrative accounts of myths, histories, and genealogies—will require an understanding of how number values and relations may have been used to encode information on social,...