Dear All,
I acquired a truly excellent history of numbers recently in a second
hand book sale. It was
The Universal History of Numbers -- From Prehistory to the Invention
of the Computer by Georges Ifrah, translated by David Bellos et al.
John Wiley and Sons, 1998. 633 pages ISBN 0-471-39340-1.
A review at http://www.sas.org/E-Bulletin/2001-10-26/reviews/reviews.html
concluded by saying:
… this is a marvelous book. Counting systems and numeric history from
around the globe, and from preliterate time to the first calculating
machines are described in enthralling detail. I don't care how much
you know about math or history, you will learn a lot just from leafing
through this seemingly endless stream of numeric delights.
For those of you interested in the history of numbers and their
application to the modern metric system you might find many resources
in this book.
By the way there are 26 new and used copies available from Amazon.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has
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