The Mathematical Enigma of Guamán Poma’s Yupana A Hundred Years' Riddle /
Against a century of inclusive studies, this book presents a new interpretation of the Inca calculating board known as the yupana, based on a different set of assumptions. Instead of seeing Inca numbers as positional, like the modern Hindu-Arabic numerals used by Western researchers, this new approa...
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
2025.
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| Udgivelse: | 1st ed. 2025. |
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| Online adgang: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92662-4 |
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Quipus recounted in the Chronicles and the studies to decipher them
- 3 Additive and positional numerical systems
- 4 Do quipus represent an additive or positional number system?
- 5 The yupana
- 6 Chronological list of studies of Guamán Poma’s yupana
- 7 Differences between deciphering a linguistic message and a mathematical one
- 8 Translating Guamán Poma’s yupana as a multiplication
- 9 The implications of detecting a multiplication in Guamán Poma’s yupana
- 10 Preconceptions preventing the yupana from being identified as a multiplication
- 11 Potential arithmetical operations on Guamán Poma’s yupana
- Appendices A: Probability of randomly inserted counters.