Number
Subtitle: the language of science
By: Tobias Dantzig ; edited by Joseph Mazur ; foreword by Barry Mazur.
Contributors: Mazur, Joseph.
Edition: The Masterpiece Science ed.
Publisher: Pi Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Number concept; Arithmetic -- History
Notes: "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 bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fingerprints; title: The empty column; title: Number-lore; title: The last number; title: Symbols; title: The unutterable; title: This flowing world; title: The art of becoming; title: Filling the gaps; title: The domain of number; title: The anatomy of the infinite; title: The two realities; title: On the recording of numbers; title: Topics in integers; title: On roots and radicals; title: On principles and arguments.