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Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) - Past, Present, & Future of Mathematics
Dwarkesh Podcast
The Surprising Absence of Numeracy in Prehistoric Humans
The speakers explore the concept of numbers and its relation to commerce and money, suggesting that in small communities, a tit-for-tat structure may have sufficed without the need for accounting. They speculate that while humans gained numeracy skills, they may have also lost some intuitive understanding of logarithms and quantitative thinking.
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