| Description |
xxii., 633 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24x25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Where "Numbers" Come From -- Ch. 1. Explaining the Origins: Ethnological and Psychological Approaches to the Sources of Numbers -- Ch. 2. Base Numbers and the Birth of Number-systems -- Ch. 3. The Earliest Calculating Machine - The Hand -- Ch. 4. How Cro-Magnon Man Counted -- Ch. 5. Tally Sticks: Accounting for Beginners -- Ch. 6. Numbers on Strings -- Ch. 7. Number, Value and Money -- Ch. 8. Numbers of Sumer -- Ch. 9. The Enigma of the Sexagesimal Base -- Ch. 10. The Development of Written Numerals in Elam and Mesopotamia -- Ch. 11. The Decipherment of a Five-thousand-year-old System -- Ch. 12. How the Sumerians Did Their Sums -- Ch. 13. Mesopotamian Numbering after the Eclipse of Sumer -- Ch. 14. The Numbers of Ancient Egypt -- Ch. 15. Counting in the Times of the Cretan and Hittite Kings -- Ch. 16. Greek and Roman Numerals -- Ch. 17. Letters and Numbers -- Ch. 18. The Invention of Alphabetic Numerals -- Ch. 19. Other Alphabetic Number-systems |
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Ch. 20. Magic, Mysticism, Divination, and Other Secrets -- Ch. 21. The Numbers of Chinese Civilisation -- Ch. 22. The Amazing Achievements of the Maya -- Ch. 23. The Final Stage of Numerical Notation -- Ch. 24. Part I: Indian Civilisation: the Cradle of Modern Numerals -- Ch. 24. Part II: Dictionary of the Numeral Symbols of Indian Civilisation -- Ch. 25. Indian Numerals and Calculation in the Islamic World -- Ch. 26. The Slow Progress of Indo-Arabic Numerals in Western Europe -- Ch. 27. Beyond Perfection |
| Notes |
Includes Index: p. [616-633] |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page [601-615] |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
| Subject |
Numerals -- History.
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Numeration -- History.
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| Author |
Bellos, David.
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| LC no. |
99045531 |
| ISBN |
0471375683 (acid-free paper) |
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