The epic history of numbers begins with cave dwellers and chronicles the long sweep of mathematics across many cultures and tens of thousands of years, including Chinese, Greek, Egyptian, Roman, Indian, Arabic, and European systems of counting. Reprint. printing.
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GEORGES IFRAH is an independent scholar and former math teacher. DAVID BELLOS, the primary translator, is Professor of French at Princeton University. SOPHIE WOOD, cotranslator, is a specialist in technical translation from French. IAN MONK, cotranslator, has translated the works of Georges Perec and Daniel Pennac.
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