The World's First Number-Systems (Universal History of Numbers S.) - Softcover

Ifrah, Georges

 
9781860467905: The World's First Number-Systems (Universal History of Numbers S.)

Synopsis

This book not only records the history of counting and calculating, it is also the story of how the human race learnt to think logically.This is volume 1 of a three volume work and it takes us through the art of numeration as it has developed all over the world.It ends up by revealing the beginnings of what would become the modern numbering system,which is the subject of Volume 2.

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