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Number : the language of science /

Dantzig, Tobias, 1884-1956.

Number : the language of science / Tobias Dantzig ; edited by Joseph Mazur ; foreword by Barry Mazur. - The Masterpiece Science ed. - New York : Pi Press, c2005. - xviii, 396 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

"This edition is a republication of the 4th edition of Number, originally published by Scribner, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Inc."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fingerprints -- The empty column -- Number-lore -- The last number -- Symbols -- The unutterable -- This flowing world -- The art of becoming -- Filling the gaps -- The domain of number -- The anatomy of the infinite -- The two realities -- On the recording of numbers -- Topics in integers -- On roots and radicals -- On principles and arguments.

0131856278

9780131856271 52395

2004113654


Number concept.
Arithmetic--History.

QA9 / .D2 2005

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