Most children learn that written numbers represent quantities in pre-school or junior primary school. Now our new study shows that honeybees, too, can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much ...

It has been long thought that one of the characteristics that makes humans unique is our ability to learn and manipulate symbols for communication. However, this notion is starting to slowly unravel.

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A new book traces the history of division signs, square roots, pi, exponents, graph axes and other mathematical symbols. (Bigstock) Consider the simple plus sign: +. Most people, Joseph Mazur ...

Mathematical symbols are epistemic actions, because they enable us to represent concepts that are literally unthinkable with our bare brains. Using case-studies from the history of mathematics and ...

Enlightening Symbols Joseph Mazur Princeton Univ., $29.95 As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought and Action, words are not the things they represent ...

Put emoji, math, and other symbols at your fingertips with a custom Mac software keyboard If youu2019re a frequent user of hard-to-access symbols, a third-party tool can let you create a faster ...