Claudia Zaslavsky
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Claudia Zaslavsky (January 12, 1917 – January 13, 2006) was an American educator and ethnomathematician. She advanced the study of the links between mathematics and world cultures, especially with her pioneering book Africa Counts, that extended to Africa the work of Karl Menninger about mathematics in ordinary life in other parts of the world.
[edit] Further reading
- Zaslavsky, Claudia (1973). Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Culture. Third revised ed., 1999. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books. ISBN 1-55652-350-5
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