Contents

Preface

  1.  Native American Number Systems

Michael P. Closs

  2.  Numerical Representations in North American Rock Art

William Breen Murray

  3.  Some Notes on Quantification and Numerals in an Amazon Indian Language

Maurizio Covaz Gnerre

  4.  The Calendrical and Numerical Systems of the Nootka

William J. Folan

  5.  Chumash Numerals

Madison S. Beeler

  6.  Cultural Ecology of Mathematics: Ojibway and Inuit Hunters

J. Peter Denny

  7.  Tallies and the Ritual Use of Number in Ojibway Pictography

Michael P. Closs

  8.  A Survey of Aztec Numbers and Their Uses

Stanley E. Payne and Michael P. Closs

  9.  Decipherment and Some Implications of Aztec Numerical Glyphs

Herbert R. Harvey and Barbara J. Williams

10.  Mathematical Ideas of the Incas

Marcia Ascher

11.  The Mathematical Notation of the Ancient Maya

Michael P. Closs

12.  The Zero in the Mayan Numerical Notation

A. Seidenberg

13.  In Search of Mesoamerican Geometry

Francine Vinette

References

Contributors