Mathematics of the Incas: Code of the Quipu by Marcia Ascher, Robert Ascher

Mathematics of the Incas: Code of the Quipu

Marcia Ascher, Robert Ascher

176 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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The Incas of ancient Peru possessed no writing. Instead, they developed a unique system expressed on spatial arrays of colored knotted cords called quipus to record and transmit information throughout their vast empire. The present book is based o...

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