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Code of the Quipu is a book on the Inca system of recording numbers and other information by means of a quipu, a system of knotted strings.It was written by mathematician Marcia Ascher and anthropologist Robert Ascher, and published as Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture by the University of Michigan Press in 1981.
Representation of a quipu, an Inca accounting and mnemonic instrument.. The prevailing numeral system was the base-ten. [2] One of the main references confirming this are the chronicles that present a hierarchy of organized authorities, using the decimal numeral system with its arithmometer: Quipu.
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Marcia Alper Ascher (April 23, 1935 – August 10, 2013) was an American mathematician, and a leader and pioneer in ethnomathematics. [1] She was a professor emerita of mathematics at Ithaca College .
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A tambo (Quechua: tampu, "inn") was an Inca structure built for administrative and military purposes. Found along the extensive roads, tambos typically contained supplies, served as lodging for itinerant state personnel, [1] and were depositories of quipu-based accounting records.