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Hardcover Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics Book

ISBN: 180064096X

ISBN13: 9781800640962

Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics

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Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting with elementary concepts, it leads the reader towards aspects of current mathematical research.


The book explains how conceptual hurdles in the development of numbers and number systems were overcome in the course of history, from Babylon to Classical Greece, from the Middle Ages to the...

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