Brian Butterworth FBA is emeritus professor of cognitive neuropsychology in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, working on the genetics and neuroscience of mathematical abilities and disabilities.? He is a fellow of the British Academy and the author of The Mathematical Brain, as well as of several academic books.?He lives in London.
His densely detailed but remarkably clear exploration, illuminated by fascinating experiments, maps our understanding of numeration in the animal kingdom * Nature *