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Number: The Language of Science Paperback - 2007
by Tobias Dantzig; Joseph Mazur
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 math from the invention of counting to the discovery of infinity is a profoundly human story that progressed by 'trying and erring, by groping and stumbling.' 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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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 mathfrom the invention of counting to the discovery of infinityis a profoundly human story that progressed by trying and erring, by groping and stumbling. 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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- Title Number: The Language of Science
- Author Tobias Dantzig; Joseph Mazur
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume Books, Garden City, New York
- Date January 30, 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780452288119 / 0452288118
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.38 x 0.94 in (20.37 x 13.67 x 2.39 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects History, Arithmetic
- Dewey Decimal Code 510.1
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