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About this book
A fascinating and well-illustrated account of the early history of counting, numerals and elementary calculation, this book will be of interest to all those studying History of Mathematics. It was originally part of a highly successful Open University course in History of Mathematics written with non-specialist students in mind, and so it will also provide useful background reading for many other disciplines as well as a valuable source of project work for Maths and History teachers. This edition contains new material on Ogham script, Cyrillic numerals and Sumerian mensuration, as well as a final section on the modern computer.
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Book Title: Numbers Through the Ages
Editors: Graham Flegg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20177-8
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1989
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 232
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, History of Science, Number Theory