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Science 1 November 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5595, pp. 969 - 970
DOI: 10.1126/science.1077975
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MATHEMATICS:
An Inclusive Perspective

A review by Helaine Selin

Mathematics Elsewhere
An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures
Marcia Ascher
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002. 219 pp. $24.95, £17.95. ISBN 0-691-07020-2.

In this follow-up to her earlier Ethnomathematics, Ascher discusses the treatment of topics such as views of time, the future, maps, and mathematical relations in a variety of traditional and small-scale cultures.
The author is at Johnson Library, Hampshire College, 893 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002, USA. E-mail: hselin{at}hampshire.edu

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