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Subtitle: The Story of a Number
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780691058542
Subjects: History of science; Number Theory; History Of Mathematics; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; History & Philosophy; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Mathematics / History; e (The number)
First sentence: Rarely in the history of science has an abstract mathematical idea been received more enthusiastically by the entire scientific community than the invention of logarithms.