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<span style="font-family:Constantia,"Hoefler Text",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am very pleased to announce the virtual book launch for my new book,
<i>Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History </i>(MIT Press, 2020 - <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reckonings" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reckonings</a>) will be on Monday, April 19, from 1:00 - 2:30pm Eastern, sponsored by Wayne State University's Humanities Center (see attached flyer). I will be doing a brief reading of an excerpt, followed by a Q&A and discussion
with Dr. Stephen Houston (Brown U) as moderator. The event is free and open to everyone - please attend and feel free to share this announcement.</span></div>
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<span><span style="font-style:italic">Reckonings</span> incorporates semiotic, philological, and cognitive perspectives on numerals and numeracy, treating numbers as communicative and representational practices, rather than principally mathematical objects.
How people choose how and when to write numbers is as much a linguistic and social activity as it is technological or arithmetical. Understanding why, for instance, we don't use Roman numerals much any longer - and the exceptions when we do - requires that
we reckon with what people are really using numerals for in the first place, moving beyond factors such as 'efficiency' to explain why one notation (the Indo-Arabic or Western numerals) is so ubiquitous. </span></div>
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