The Invention of Numbers

Reducere. "A fascinating compendium of information about writing systems-both for words and numbers." -Publishers Weekly "A truly enlightening and fascinatin...

Description"A fascinating book."--James Ryerson, New York Times Book ReviewA Smithsonian Best Science Book of the YearWinner of the PROSE Award for...

Reducere. Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting w...

Reducere. Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting w...

He has published his poems in many forms, including - again his own invention - New Numbers, a constantly changing collage, which appears here in i...

The Middle Ages were a period of tremendous cultural and scientific advancement in the Islamic Empire—ideas and inventions that shaped our world. D...

Daughter of the poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths, she read numbers like most people read words. In 1834 she ca...

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Hello, World is a vibrant, graphic picture book compendium for preschoolers set in a Richard Scarry-inspired environment by Geisel Award-winning cr...

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Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the slave trade *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "It is cert...