Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal about Our Uniquely Mathematical Minds

by Brian Butterworth

Book Overview

An entertaining investigationof the numerical abilities of animals and our own appetite for arithmetic The philosopher Bertrand Russell once observed that realizing that a pair of apples and the passage of two days could somehow both be represented by theconceptwe call "two" was one of the most astonishing discoveries anyone had ever made. So what do we make of the incredible fact that animals seem to have inherent mathematical abilities? As cognitive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 154162081X
• ISBN13: 9781541620810
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"