foundational crises: notes

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Mar 24 14:15:31 CDT 2010


Fun, but supposedly ignorant (blame the internets):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals

Despite evidence to the contrary, some folkloric explanations for the
origin of modern Arabic numerals persist. While these hypotheses
continue to propagate due to their seemingly well-constructed
arguments, they were based entirely on speculation by individuals who,
while genuinely intrigued by the subject, were either ignorant of the
relevant archeological facts, or simply lived in an era preceding much
of their modern rediscovery. One popular example of such myths claims
that the original forms of these symbols indicated their value through
the quantity of angles they contained.[11][12][13]


On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:11 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not really related, but fun:
> The Origins of Numbers
> http://www.slideshare.net/ghael0625/origin-of-numbers



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