Ethnomathematics: A Multicultural View of Mathematical Ideas, Marcia Ascher's 1991 study from Brooks/Cole Publishing, is a scholarly survey of mathematical ideas and reasoning practices across non-Western cultures. Its strength is that it is a foundational academic work in the field of ethnomathematics it helped define. Its limit is that it surveys many cultures briefly rather than any one in depth, so a detailed claim about one specific tradition's mathematics should be checked against dedicated scholarship on that tradition.
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Reliability tier 1: a foundational academic work from an academic publisher that helped define its field of study. NotesScholarly study of mathematical ideas across non-Western cultures, Brooks/Cole Publishing, 1991.
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AuthorMarcia Ascher
PublisherBrooks/Cole Publishing
Publication Year1991
Source Typeacademic textbook
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