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Number: The Language of Science, The Masterpiece Science Edition

hardcoverMarch 10, 2005
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ISBN-13: 9780131856271 ISBN-10: 0131856278
Publisher
Penguin
Binding
hardcover
Published
March 10, 2005
Weight
1.2 lbs
Dimensions
21.20×3.50×14.20 cm

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Number: The Language of Science, The Masterpiece Science Edition by Mazur, Joseph. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780131856271.

Number is an eloquent, accessible tour de force that reveals how the concept of number evolved from prehistoric times through the twentieth century. Tobias Dantzig shows that the development of math—from the invention of counting to the discovery of infinity—is a profoundly human story that progressed by “trying and erring, by groping and stumbling.” He shows how commerce, war, and religion led to advances in math, and he recounts the stories of individuals whose breakthroughs expanded the concept of number and created the mathematics that we know today.