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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.
Notably, an accession card for quipu B/8715 in the museum's collection indicates that the specimen was lent to Smith in November 1911, likely for Locke's research. [ 9 ] Locke's first major work on the Andean quipu was published in 1912 as an article in American Anthropologist , titled "The Ancient Quipu, a Peruvian Knot Record".
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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]
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