BOOKKEEPING ORIGINS. “Writing was invented by accountants and not by writers, but writers harnessed the accountant’s idea of creating written symbols for spoken words. And mathematicians harnessed the accountant’s idea of notating abstract numbers to develop a notation for mathematics that led to more sophisticated mathematical thinking.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022