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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." ― Library Journal. 282 illustrations.
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"'It must have required many ages, ' Bertrand Russell once wrote, 'to discover that a brace of pheasants and a couple of days were both instances of the number 2.' "Number Words and Number Symbols, " by the late Karl W. Menninger, is a magnificent history of how mankind discovered numbers, invented a bewildering variety of ways to name, symbolize and manipulate them, and how those ways altered over the millennia."Menninger was a German mathematician of such panoramic interests and expository skill that he became one of his country's most widely read authors of nontechnical books on mathematics. This splendid translation of the revised 1958 edition of Menninger's most ambitious work is a beautiful volume. Its large pages are handsomely bound, carefully indexed, and enriched by 282 pictures, mostly photographs, that are as fascinating as the lively text itself."Menninger's story is a colorful mix of mathematics, linguistics and cultural anthropology."--Martin Gardner, "BookWorld"
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- PublisherMIT Press
- Publication date1969
- ISBN 10 0262130408
- ISBN 13 9780262130400
- BindingTextbook Binding
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages480
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Number Words and Number Symbols: A Cultural History of Numbers. Translated by Paul Broneer from the revised German edition.
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