| Edition |
The Masterpiece Science edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"Previously published in a Pi Press edition."--T.p. verso. |
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"This edition is a republication of the 4th edition of Number, originally published by Scribner, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Inc."--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Fingerprints -- The empty column -- Number-lore -- The last number -- Symbols -- The unutterable -- This flowing world -- The art of becoming -- Filling the gaps -- The domain of number -- The anatomy of the infinite -- The two realities -- On the recording of numbers -- Topics in integers -- On roots and radicals -- On principles and arguments. |
| Subject |
Number concept.
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Arithmetic -- History.
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| Added Author |
Mazur, Joseph.
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| ISBN |
0131856278 hardcover |
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9780131856271 hardcover |
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9780452288119 paperback |
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0452288118 paperback |
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