Abstraction and Representation: Essays on the Cultural Evolution of Thinking (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1996)Paperback - Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1996, 15 December 2010

This book deals with the development of thinking under different cultural conditions, focusing on the evolution of mathematical thinking in the history of science and education. Starting from Piaget's genetic epistemology, it provides a conceptual framework for describing and explaining the development of cognition by reflective abstractions from systems of actions.