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 ...
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 ...
On a Tuesday evening, the activity room at the Eldersburg Library is swirling, as a dozen or so kids of varying ages and skill levels practice and expand upon their repertoire of yo-yo tricks. Yo-yo ...
MRS. RISHBETH has long been known as a zealous collector and student of the string games known popularly as ‘cat's cradle’. In this volume she justifies a study which, to the Philistine, may seem ...
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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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