What Counts
Overview
Communicating Number (Penn State)
Construction of the Natural Numbers (MIT)
Construction of Number Systems
Development
Timeline
The Big Bang: ~13.8 Billion Years Ago
The Earth: ~4.5 Billion Years Ago
Human Beings: ~3 Million to ~1.9 Million Years Ago
Modern Human Beings: ~200,000 Years Ago
Human Language; ~150,000 Years Ago
Evidence of Counting: ~46,000 to ~10,000 Years Ago
The Anthropocene: ~8,000 Years Ago
Evidence of Human Language: ~6,000 Years Ago
Evidence of Writing (i.e., not Proto-Writing): ~5,200 Years Ago
Questions
Is There Number without Language?
Is Counting Prior to Language?
Are Words Required for Numbers?
Does Language Give Sense to Number?
Philosophy
Number Systems
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