TY - BOOK AU - Dantzig,Tobias AU - Mazur,Joseph TI - Number: the language of science SN - 9780131856271 AV - QA9.M476.N863 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Plume Book KW - Number concept KW - Arithmetic KW - History N1 - "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; 2; 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; 2 ER -