Claudia Zaslavsky

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 ^[1]. Her son Thomas Zaslavsky is a mathematician in the US.

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

References

1. ^ Books from Claudia Zaslavsky

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Name	Zaslavsky, Claudia
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Short description	American ethnomathematician
Date of birth	January 12, 1917
Place of birth
Date of death	January 13, 2006
Place of death