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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.
The Khipu Field Guide (quipu schematics and investigations from a large quipu database) Code of the Quipu: Databooks (contains the descriptions and data for the more than 200 quipus studied Marcia Ascher and Robert Ascher)
With her husband, Ascher co-authored the book Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture (University of Michigan Press, 1981); it was republished in 1997 by Dover Books as Mathematics of the Incas: Code of the Quipu. [6]
Quipukamayuq with his quipu and a yupana, the main instruments used by the Incas in mathematics. The mathematics of the Incas (or of the Tawantinsuyu) was the set of numerical and geometric knowledge and instruments developed and used in the nation of the Incas before the arrival of the Spaniards. It can be mainly characterized by its ...
The Council adopted a strongly anti-idolatrous tone, [1] targeting obscene books in bishops' possessions for destruction. [2] [a] The Council also ordered the complete destruction of quipu concerning non-Christian customs, [b] [4] [5] while encouraging their manufacture for confessions [6] [c] and doctrinal memorization among the indigenous. [1]
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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.