The Name of the number / Michael A B Deakin.
The Name of the Number is the second book in The Emergence of Number series. It looks at the history and anthropology of the ways in which numbers have been expressed throughout the ages and across different cultures dealing with the different languages of the world, the different ways that number r...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Camberwell, Vic. :
ACER Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Informit |
| Summary: | The Name of the Number is the second book in The Emergence of Number series. It looks at the history and anthropology of the ways in which numbers have been expressed throughout the ages and across different cultures dealing with the different languages of the world, the different ways that number representation has been structured, the history and prehistory of number concepts, the ways in which numerical representation (in word and symbol) and their evolution over time. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 112 pages) Also available in printed form. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 1429483148 9781429483148 |