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From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers

By Georges Ifrah , Lowell Bair

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
1987
ISBN
0140099190, 9780140099195
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9453832 bytes)
Pages
541\541
Time added
2015-02-13 16:23:20

Description

The Universal History of Numbers is the most comprehensive book I have come across on the subject by quite some way, and I have probably read over 100. The style of writing makes the book easy to read, and it assumes almost no prior knowledge. Having said that the book is not exactly light bed time reading, there are nearly 650 large pages of quite small writing. It would take a *very* dedicated or interested reader to tackle the book from cover to cover. In my opinion it is best to read the introduction and first one or two chapters, and then to dip into the bits of the book you are particularly interested in.

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