The Universal History of Numbers
Subtitle: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer
By: translated by David Bellos, E. F. Harding, Sophie Wood, and Ian Monk
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc; Wiley
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, USA
Translation of: Histoire universelle des chiffres
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 633
Copyright date: 1981, 1994, 1998
Table of contents: label: Foreward
title: v; label: List of Abbreviations
title: vi; label: Introduction - Where "Numbers" Come From
title: xv; label: Chapter 1 - Explaining the Origins: Ethnological and Psychological Approaches to the Sources of Numbers
title: 3; label: Chapter 2 - Base Numbers and the Birth of Number-systems
title: 23; label: Chapter 3 - The Earliest Calculating Machine - The Hand
title: 47; label: Chapter 4 - How Cro-Magnon Man Counted
title: 62; label: Chapter 5 - Tally Sticks: Accounting for Beginners
title: 64; label: Chapter 6 - Numbers on Strings
title: 68; label: Chapter 7 - Number, Value and Money
title: 72; label: Chapter 8 - Numbers of Sumer
title: 77; label: Chapter 9 - The Enigma of the Sexagesimal Base
title: 91; label: Chapter 10 - The Development of Written Numerals in Elam and Mesopotamia
title: 96; label: Chapter 11 - The Decipherment of a Five-thousand-year-old System
title: 109; label: Chapter 12 - How the Sumerians Did Their Sums
title: 121; label: Chapter 13 - Mesopotamian Numbering after the Eclipse of Sumer
title: 134; label: Chapter 14 - The Numbers of Ancient Egypt
title: 162; label: Chapter 15 - Counting in the Times of the Cretan and Hittite Kings
title: 178; label: Chapter 16 - Greek and Roman Numerals
title: 182; label: Chapter 17 - Letters and Numbers
title: 212; label: Chapter 18 - The Invention of Alphabetic Numerals
title: 227; label: Chapter 19 - Other Alphabetic Number-systems
title: 240; label: Chapter 20 - Magic, Mysticism, Divination, and Other Secrets
title: 248; label: Chapter 21 - The Numbers of Chinese Civilisation
title: 263; label: Chapter 22 - The Amazing Achievements of the Maya
title: 297; label: Chapter 23 - The Final State of Numerical Notation
title: 323; label: Chapter 24 - Part I - Indian Civilisation: the Cradle of Modern Numerals
title: 356; label: Chapter 24 - Part II - Dictionary of the Numeral Symbols of Indian Civilisation
title: 440; label: Chapter 25 - Indian Numerals and Calculation in the Islamic World
title: 511; label: Chapter 26 - The Slow Progress of Indo-Arabic Numerals in Western Europe
title: 577; label: Chapter 27 - Beyond Perfection
title: 592; label: Bibliography
title: 601; label: Index of Names and Subjects
title: 616