Story of Numbers/How Mathematics Has Shaped Civilization (Paperback: Reprint: 266 pages)
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Product Details: Story of Numbers/How Mathematics Has Shaped Civilization
| Author: | John McLeish |
| Format: | Paperback: Reprint: 266 pages. |
| Publisher: | Fawcett (07/01/1994) |
| ISBN: | 0449909387 |
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Publisher Notes: Story of Numbers/How Mathematics Has Shaped Civilization
- The language of number
- The Amerindians and number
- Sumeria and Babylon
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient China
- Ancient Greek fantasies about number
- Ancient Israel
- The Indian love-affair with number
- The Maya
- The Arabs: renaissance of number and science
- Francis Bacon and new directions
- John Napier: the rationalisation of arithmetic
- The Newtonian revolution: the marriage of craftsmanship and scholarship
- Babbage, the great unknown
- Boole and Boolean logic
- Machines which (or who?) think
- The electronic computer
- The nature of scientific change.
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