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The story of numbers /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McLeish, John, Ph. D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fawcett Columbine, 1994
Edition:1st Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.
Subjects:
Mathematics > History.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • The language of number
  • The Amerindians and number
  • Sumeria and Babylon
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Ancient China
  • Ancient Greek fantasies about number
  • Ancient Israel
  • The Indian love-affair with number
  • The Maya
  • The Arabs: renaissance of number and science
  • Francis Bacon and new directions
  • John Napier: the rationalisation of arithmetic
  • The Newtonian revolution: the marriage of craftsmanship and scholarship
  • Babbage, the great unknown
  • Boole and Boolean logic
  • Machines which (or who?) think
  • The electronic computer
  • The nature of scientific change.