Cinzia Florio: The Mathematical Enigma of Guamán Poma's Yupana, Gebunden

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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.