The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer by Georges Ifrah

The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer

Georges Ifrah with Sophie Wood, David Bellos, E.F. Harding, Ian Monk

656 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science informative slow-paced
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A history of numbers, from Cro-Magnon Man to the electronic spreadsheet, taking in Scandinavia, China and the Classical World. The text is aided by explanatory figures and tables.

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