Number : the language of science /
Dantzig, Tobias, 1884-1956.,
Number : the language of science / [print] Tobias Dantzig ; edited by Joseph Mazur ; foreword by Barry Mazur. - The Masterpiece Science edition. - New York : Plume Book, (c)2007. - xviii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
"Previously published in a Pi Press edition."--T.p. verso. "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 bibliographies 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.
9780131856271 9780452288119
Number concept.
Arithmetic--History.
QA9.M476.N863 2007 QA9
Number : the language of science / [print] Tobias Dantzig ; edited by Joseph Mazur ; foreword by Barry Mazur. - The Masterpiece Science edition. - New York : Plume Book, (c)2007. - xviii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
"Previously published in a Pi Press edition."--T.p. verso. "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 bibliographies 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.
9780131856271 9780452288119
Number concept.
Arithmetic--History.
QA9.M476.N863 2007 QA9