Keys to Mathematical Treasure Chests: Andean Khipus – Acknowledgements and About the Author

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the staff of Convergence for the invitation to prepare this article and for their comments on a previous draft. I also thank Clarissa Pacyna for her observations on an initial version of the piece.

About the Author

Manuel Medrano has researched khipus in various capacities since 2016, first as an undergraduate in Applied Mathematics at Harvard and then as a Marshall Scholar and MPhil student in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is now a PhD student in Latin American History at Harvard. His interests include the history of archaeology, book history, digital humanities, and the history of mathematics. He is the author of Quipus: Mil años de historia anudada en los Andes y su futuro digital (Planeta, 2021), a new book on the state of khipu research.