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String figures shed light on cultural connections and the roots of mathematical reasoning

New research suggests that the making of string figures, a globally documented practice, may point to shared cultural heritage stretching back millennia. The research offers a new way to investigate ...
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String figures shed light on cultural connections and the roots of mathematical reasoning

New research suggests that the making of string figures, a globally documented practice, may point to shared cultural heritage stretching back millennia. The research offers a new way to investigate ...
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String figures shed light on cultural connections and the roots of mathematical reasoning

A collaborative study between the University of Helsinki, Aarhus University, the National Museum of Denmark and Seattle University examined the cognitive, cultural and historical significance of ...
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String-Figures

KATHLEEN HADDON (Mrs. O. H. T. Rishbeth), unquestionably our foremost expert in the study of the string-figure, has published a selection of these ingenious diversions for the use of beginners ...
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String figures, and other monographs

String figures, by W. W. R. Ball.--Methods and theories for the solution of problems of geometrical construction, by J. Petersen.--Non-Euclidean plane geometry and trigonometry, by H. S. Caŕslaw.--A ...