The story of numbers
By: John McLeish.
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Mathematics -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-256) and index.
Originally published under the title "Number" in Great Britain : Bloomsbury Pub., 1991, and in the United States by Ballantine Books in 1992.
"How mathematics has shaped civilization" -- subtitle on cover.
At head of title: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.
Table of contents: title: The language of number; title: The Amerindians and number; title: Sumeria and Babylon; title: Ancient Egypt; title: Ancient China; title: Ancient Greek fantasies about number; title: Ancient Israel; title: The Indian love-affair with number; title: The Maya; title: The Arabs: renaissance of number and science; title: Francis Bacon and new directions; title: John Napier: the rationalisation of arithmetic; title: The Newtonian revolution: the marriage of craftsmanship and scholarship; title: Babbage, the great unknown; title: Boole and Boolean logic; title: Machines which (or who?) think; title: The electronic computer; title: The nature of scientific change.