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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 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, Tobias Dantzig, Joseph Mazur, Barry Mazur
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- Number
- Subtitle
- The Language of Science
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Tobias Dantzig, Joseph Mazur, Barry Mazur
- Publisher
- Plume
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN10
- 0452288118
- ISBN13
- 9780452288119
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, History, Science & Math, Natural sciences, Philosophy, Science, Christian Themes, Mathematics, Technology, Physics, England, World History, Statistics, History of Science, Counting, Numbers, Arithmetic, Albert Einstein, History of Mathematics, Number Theory, Infinity, Philosophy of Mathematics, Mathematical Thinking
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- 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.