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Title Number systems of the North American Indians : a dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Ogden Graduate School of Science in candidacy for the...

Creator Eells, Walter Crosby, 1886-1962

Date 1911

Subjects Indians of North America, Number systems

Description Carbon typescript on onionskin.
Vita.
Half-bound in red leather and marbled paper, with marbled endpapers; gold-stamped binder's title: "Number systems of the North American Indians. Eells."
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

Summary Typescript of the author's master thesis on the remarkable differences in the number words and number systems observed in more than 300 Indian languages used north of Mexico. Eells studies the widely divergent numerals of the American Indians, and the different ways in which they were built into number systems, seizing the opportunity to study the evolution of the first primitive mathematical ideas among primitive peoples very little affected by outside influences.

Extent 171, [1] leaves, bound ; 29 cm

Format Manuscripts

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 270

BibID 175192

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2654px × 3425px 26.03 MB

File Created 09/06/2023

Filename 991751928805867_Ayer_MS_270_00001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11OOEL

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