The math gene: How mathematical thinking evolved and why numbers are like gossip
By J. Wimp, K. Devlin. 2002
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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics
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- Types of Mathematics-Language Reading Interactions that Unnecessarily Hinder Algebra Learning and Assessment (2006, background): “More broadly, Devlin (2000) theorizes that virtually everyone has mathematical and linguistic abilities, and that these abilities are inexorably connected.”
- Children’s oral narrative and reading skills in the first 3 years of reading instruction (2010, background): “O’Neill et al. argued, based on Devlin (2000) , that the basis of narrative skill is to understand actions and reactions, causes and consequences.”
- Race, Ideology, and Academic Ability: A Relational Analysis of Racial Narratives in Mathematics (2017, background): “” Given that perceptions of mathematical ability as innate are pervasive (Devlin, 2000; Ernest, 1991), I conjectured that this task might indirectly shed light on students’ racialized perceptions of mathematical ability.”
- Preschool Children’s Narratives and Performance on the Peabody Individualized Achievement Test – Revised: Evidence of a Relation between Early Narrative and Later Mathematical Ability (2004, background): “In retrospect, given the arguments of Devlin (2000, published after our study was completed), this goal most likely increased our chances of finding the relation that we observed between children’s performance on the narrative measures of conjunction use, event content, perspective-shift and mental ”
- Where mathematics comes from : how the embodied mind brings mathematics into being (2002, background): “Dehaene’s work on the number sense [Dh] and Devlin’s book [De].”
- Synaesthesia? A window into perception, thought and language (2001, background): “Additionally, numerous thinkers (Bickerton, 1995; Devlin, 2000; Lieberman, 1992) have pointed out that syntactic structure may have arisen from the pre-adaptation provided by syllabic structure.”