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Title:
Number
Author:
McLeish, John (Psychiatrist)
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Fawcett Columbine, 1992.

©1991
Physical Description:
266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
General Note:
At head of title: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.

Originally published: Great Britain : Bloomsbury Pub., 1991.
Language:
English
Contents:
The language of number -- The Amerindians and number -- Sumeria and Babylon -- Ancient Egypt -- Ancient China -- Ancient Greek fantasies about number -- Ancient Israel -- The Indian love-affair with number -- The Maya -- The Arabs: renaissance of number and science -- Francis Bacon and new directions -- John Napier: the rationalisation of arithmetic -- The Newtonian revolution: the marriage of craftsmanship and scholarship -- Babbage, the great unknown -- Boole and Boolean logic -- Machines which (or who?) think -- The electronic computer -- The nature of scientific change.
ISBN:
9780449906934
Format :
Book