It might have been beans, successful hunts, or victories in battle, but, for millennia, people were using maths to describe things - counting them, measuring them, dividing them up.

— Marianne Freiberger, Rachel Thomas, Numericon (2015)

Source: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dluwoAEACAAJ&dq=numericon&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz7MG39f_aAhXKL8AKHSlMA2cQ6AEILTAA

Credited to Freiberger and Thomas of Plus Magazine.

Topics: mathematics