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Click to enlargeNumber Words and Number Symbols: A Cultural History of Numbers

Karl Menninger
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ISBN: 0486270963
Page Count: 480
Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 9 1/4
Classic study discusses number sequence and language and explores written numerals and computations in many cultures. "The historian of mathematics will find much to interest him here both in the contents and viewpoint, while the casual reader is likely to be intrigued by the author's superior narrative ability." — Library Journal. 282 illustrations. 1969 edition.

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