The Universal History of Numbers 'World's First Number System', 'Universal History of Numbers', 'Computers and the Information Revolution
Language: English
Published by The Harvill Press, 2000
- Softcover
- Used
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All three books are first printings of this edition in near mint condition. The slipcase has a repaired split to the top rh side. Please see pictures.
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- Title
- The Universal History of Numbers 'World's First Number System', 'Universal History of Numbers', 'Computers and the Information Revolution
- Publisher
- The Harvill Press
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 186046792X
- ISBN 13
- 9781860467929
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 2,314 grams
- Dimensions
- 14.1 centimeters width by 22.5 centimeters height by 11.6 centimeters depth
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Review
Ifrah never misses a chance to include intriguing insights that any reader can appreciate, from how to form cuneiform numbers on wet clay to performing calculations on your fingers--or how to use a Chinese abacus (with details of a 1945 competition between an abacus expert and someone using a calculator; the abacus-user won easily).
Much of this detail may well prove wearisome, however. I for one would have appreciated much less on long-dead number systems, and much more on modern developments in numbers. There is very little coverage of such key issues as irrational and transcendental numbers and nothing at all on the advent of complex, hyperreal or surreal numbers. This is clearly a labour of love, where the blindness of the inamorato is sadly all too apparent. --Robert Matthews
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