Number : The Language of Science (Paperback)
by Tobias Dantzig and Joseph Mazur and Barry Mazur

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"Number" is an eloquent, accessible tour de force that reveals how the concept of number evolved from prehistoric times through the twentieth century. Tobias Dantzig shows that the development of mathafrom the invention of counting to the discovery of infinityais a profoundly human story that progressed by atrying and erring, by groping and stumbling.a He shows how commerce, war, and religion led to advances in math, and he recounts the stories of individuals whose breakthroughs expanded the concept of number and created the mathematics that we know today.

 
 
 
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  • ISBN-13: 9780452288119
  • ISBN-10: 0452288118
  • Publisher: Plume Books
  • Publish Date: January 2007
  • Page Count: 398
  • Reading Level: Ages 18-UP

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