Number: The Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-Mathematician is a popular mathematics book by Tobias Dantzig. The original U.S. publication was by Macmillan in 1930.Booklist Books, a Selection (1931) listed in last section of (1922-1933) collection of the American Library Association, p.10 A second edition (third impression) was published in 1947 in Prague by Melantrich Company. The book recounts the history of mathematical ideas.
Chapters
The book has 12 chapters. There is an appendix of illustrations. The third edition contains a separate section for essays, at the book's end.
Fingerprints The Empty Column Number Lore The Last Number Symbols The Unutterable This Flowing World The Act of Becoming Filling the Gaps The Domain of Number The Anatomy of the Infinite The Two Realities
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