ROOTS IN NUMBERS. “Not only did mathematical thinking lead to verbal language but it also gave rise to written language through the development of mathematical notation. The very first notation for recording quantities were tally sticks. The tally stick, however, gave no indication of what was being tallied but they were the first forms of notated concrete numbers.”
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-59177-9_13
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022