The Universal Book of Mathematics
Subtitle: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes
Publisher: Castle Books
Published: February 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780785822974
Subjects: History & Philosophy; Reference; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: A counting frame that started out, several thousand years ago, as rows of pebbles in the desert sands of the Middle East.