'Mathematics of the Incas: Code of the Quipu', the 1997 revised edition with corrections
Author
Marcia Ascher
Robert Ascher
Subject
The quipu in Inca culture
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Dover Books
Publication date
1981, 1997
Code of the Quipu is a book on the Inca system of recording numbers and other information by means of a quipu, a system of knotted strings. It was written by mathematician Marcia Ascher and anthropologist Robert Ascher, and published as Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture by the University of Michigan Press in 1981. Dover Books republished it with corrections in 1997 as Mathematics of the Incas: Code of the Quipu. The Basic Library List Committee of the Mathematical Association of America has recommended its inclusion in undergraduate mathematics libraries.[1]
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