An exploration of the origins and influences of number from prehistory to modern time ‧ Reveals the deeper meaning of the symbols and esoteric knowledge of secret societies ‧ Explains the numerical so
Two distinguished mathematicians unite many fragmentary narrations in this concise history of the origin and development of Hindu-Arabic numerals. They recount the labors of scholars who studied the s
Explains the history of written numbers, from ancient Roman numerals to the invention of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system and the spread of the Arabic numeral system around the world.
Back in print at last, this classic work by Calvin Clawson examines the remarkable co-evolution of numbers and human culture. From the early clay beads and ropes that our ancestors used as primitive c
Professor X and his dog, Y, teach kids how to count exponentially by powers of 10 (1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, etc.), beginning at 1 and working all the way up to a googol (a 1 followed by 100 zeros) a
With a farm of pigs as his abacus, Arthur Geisert uses elements of a search and count game to bring Roman numerals to life in this unintimidating math-concept book. First, the seven Roman numerals are
Drawing on years of research, a renowned archaeologist traces the evolution of counting. She shows how the concept of numbers came about, how various societies answered the question "How many?," and
Introduces the numbers two, three, and four by counting the ways in which they occur in everyday life, from your two eyes and two arms to the four seasons of the year
A reprint of the 1969 English translation (MIT Press) of the revised German edition of 1957-58 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Gottingen). A classic study documenting the origin and meaning of numbers in
