The life of numbers
By: from an idea by Antonio J. Durán ; articles by Antonio J. Durán, Georges Ifrah, Alberto Manguel ; illustrations by Sean Mackaoui, Natalia Pintado, Javier Pagola.
Contributors: Duran, Antonio J.; Ifrah, Georges.; Manguel, Alberto.; Mackaoui, Sean.; Pintado, Natalia.; Pagola, Javier.
Publisher: T Ediciones; Taric, S.A.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Madrid]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9788486882143
Subjects: Numeration -- History; Number concept -- History
Notes: Pagination is indicated by a mathematical pattern of "circumferences and circles and colors that come and go and disappear."
Table of contents: title: Done on paper: the dual nature of numbers and the page -- Alberto Manguel; title: Numbers are for counting (I) -- Antonio J. Durán; title: The way people learnt to count and calculate -- Georges Ifrah; title: Numbers are for counting (II) -- Antonio J. Durán; title: Appendix: Chronica numerorum, Catalog, The authors, The illustrators.