Number words and number symbols a cultural history of numbers

Karl Menninger

Dover Publications Inc. | 1992 | 512 páginas | epub | 15 Mb

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Classic study discusses number sequence and language and explores written numerals and computations in many cultures. "The historian of mathematics will find much to interest him here both in the contents and viewpoint, while the casual reader is likely to be intrigued by the author's superior narrative ability.