Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 38 Issue 2, May 2001
35 -43
Is There a Worldwide Mathematics Curriculum?
Zalman Usiskin
We in mathematics have many names for numbers, among them square numbers, prime numbers, rational numbers, transfinite numbers, Fibonacci numbers, complex numbers, amicable numbers, and on and on. We are number people. We have many words for numbers just as Eskimos have many words for ice and Arabs have many words for camels.
