- QUANTA researchers publish theme issue in the world’s oldest scientific journal
The theme issue explores how different ways of counting influence learning, language, and understanding across cultures. Author : Jean-Charles Pelland In 1951, the Ministry of Church and Education introduced a new… Read more: QUANTA researchers publish theme issue in the world’s oldest scientific journal - Publication: The evolution of cultural transmission in the human lineage during the last 3.3 million years
For more than three million years, humans have built up a vast body of knowledge passed down from generation to generation. The study, published by Pr. Francesco d’Errico and Ivan Colagè… Read more: Publication: The evolution of cultural transmission in the human lineage during the last 3.3 million years - ARTE documentary on the evolution of numbers
ARTE presents L’odyssée des chiffres, a three-part documentary series tracing the remarkable evolution of numbers – from the first prehistoric markings to the algorithms shaping today’s digital world. In the first… Read more: ARTE documentary on the evolution of numbers - Workshop on the Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification in Switzerland
In the idyllic Swiss village of Charmey, from May 21 to 24, 2024, Team ETH Zürich hosted the bi-annual QUANTA project workshop bringing together the teams from Bordeaux, Leipzig, Bristol and… Read more: Workshop on the Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification in Switzerland - QUANTA in Brussels: Investigating the Ishango Notched Bones and the Hypothesis that They Play a Role in the Origins of Counting and Mathematics
The engraved and notched artefacts from Ishango (Democratic Republic of Congo) are currently considered some of the oldest evidence of counting and mathematics, dated back at least 20,000 years ago. Much… Read more: QUANTA in Brussels: Investigating the Ishango Notched Bones and the Hypothesis that They Play a Role in the Origins of Counting and Mathematics - Unlocking the mystery of Palaeolithic polished gravel
Counting with the help of homologous items is widely attested in the ethnographic record. A team of QUANTA researchers has just published in the journal PLOS ONE results of the analysis… Read more: Unlocking the mystery of Palaeolithic polished gravel - Humans didn’t evolve to count so numbers remain a challenge
QUANTA PI Rafael Núñez in conversation with KPBS Science and Technology reporter Thomas Fudge on our relationship with numbers. Listen to the interview:https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2022/06/15/humans-didnt-evolve-count-numbers-remain-challenge Published June 15, 2022 - Is Math Invented or Discovered?
Scientific Controversies: QUANTA PI Rafael Núñez debates the nature of mathematics with MIT physicist Max Tegmark. Watch the debate hosted by Director of Sciences Janna Levin at Pioneer Works on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c0JGQ28OM0&t=6s… Read more: Is Math Invented or Discovered?
