Please enter the message.Would you also like to submit a review for this item?The subject field is required. The book has been terribly written. Now in paperback, here is Georges Ifrah’s landmark international bestseller–the first complete, universal study of the invention and evolution of numbers the world over.
The text is aided by explanatory figures and tables.Please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours. Ifrah does a magnificent and herculean job at sharing with the reader the wonderful path taken by those numbers that we can’t help but take for granted. The knowledge that science and learning could have progressed much further much earlier is a rather depressing reflection on human nature and culture, but even today there are people that are against education and the spread of knowledge. Please enter the message.Would you also like to submit a review for this item? One other very interesting finding is how that the modern decimal system met such stern opposition in Europe.
His students asked him where numbers came from? He takes us through the evolution of arithmetic from the biological concepts of “one-two-many” to the great and intricate counting systems designed by many pre-literate societies.
I was wrong. Overall the book is fascinating and incredibly detailed and informative. The result is The Universal History of Numbers, an impressively detailed account of pretty much every aspect of the emergence and evolution of counting from the Cro-Magnons of 25,000 BC through Babylonian, Greek and Roman times to the metric system and beyond. He similarly devotes ample time to explain the fascinating origin of the various bases used throughout history (base 10, 20, 60 or even 100!).
A riveting history of counting and calculating, from the time of the cave dwellers to the twentieth century, this fascinating volume brings numbers to thrilling life, explaining their development in human terms, the intriguing situations that made them necessary, and the brilliant achievements in human thought that they made possible. 1, Aventure des chiffres.\" ; Chronicles the history of counting and calculating from the time of cave dwellers to the late twentieth century, examining how different cultures used numbers to solve basic problems related to their everyday needs. He traveled to the four corners of the world, read thousands of books, visited hundreds of libraries and museums and asked questions of countless scholars. So I thought before I read this work. Image provided by: CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM
Ifrah does a magnificent and herculean job at sharing with the reader the wonderful path taken by those numbers that we can’t help but take for granted. Съдържа, например, две глави за азбучните бройни системи като тази по нашите и околните земи.I have not actually finished this behemoth of a book, nor will I probably ever finish this behemoth book. 1, Aventure des chiffres.\" ; # The universal history of numbers : from prehistory to the invention of the computer\n # The universal history of numbers : from prehistory to the invention of the computer\n # Histoire universelle des chiffres (1994). History of numbers, then, must be bewitching. I assumed that this would be a history of mathematics, or perhaps arithmetic. Please enter your name.The E-mail message field is required.
Topics Universal, History, Numbers Collection opensource Language English. Welcome back. The Universal History of Numbers Numbers are so elemental that it seems inconceiv-able we could have lived without them, yet numbers are only an abstract idea that gradually dawned on humans.
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Definitive. The evolution of numbers as they inhabited cultures, then faded, and erupted again, diversifying in hundreds of filigreed variations, is really a history Get this from a library! The E-mail Address(es) field is required.
Numbers and counting systems from all different cultures, from prehistoric tally marks to sheep-counting techniques, to finger counting methods from around the world. So is history. Our modern word "cipher", which means "mystery" and "secret code" as well as "zero", is a linguistic memory when acknowledging that one used this system could have resulted in your execution by the Inquisition!It is amazing how such a book can be so interesting. Who invented them and why? Image provided by: CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM His students asked him where numbers came from? He also takes pains to dispel the theories that seek to preserve the racist myths of the superiority of the Greeks and Romans (and by extension the West, as their intellectual heirs) by implying that our current number system was neither Arabic nor Indian.