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
510
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
510