title: The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics, Revised and Updated Edition
author:  Stanislas Dehaene 
description: <br />"Read <em>The Number Sense</em> for its rich insights into matters as varying as the cuneiform depiction of numbers, why Jean Piaget's theory of stages in infant learning is wrong, and to discover the brain regions involved in the number sense."--<em>The New York Times Book Review</em>
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  Book I. Construction of numbers, length and area. 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  ISBN 978-952-94-0570-1  
  ISBN 978-952-94-0571-8  
  ISBN 978-952-94-0572-5  
  ISBN 978-952-94-0573-2  
   
   
  Copyright © Naumov Ivan, 2018.                                                                           Illustrator, designer   
                                                                                                                                       Gudalova Tatiana 
   
   
   
  Finland 2018 
   
   
  
  Preface 
  The 1-st book is done to provide a complete construction of numbers, length and area.                              
  It is obviously the most reasonable way to start a course of mathematics. Almost everyone knows 
  that when we operate with numbers, we do it according to the certain rules.  
   
   
  Unfortunately, there is never any explanation of where these rules came from, despite the fact that 
  it is a very important question, to say the least.  
   
   
   
   
   
   
      
  Really, almost anyo