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Number : the language of science / Tobias Dantzig ; edited by Joseph Mazur ; foreword by Barry Mazur.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Pi Press, c2005.Edition: The Masterpiece Science edDescription: xviii, 396 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0131856278
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 510 22
LOC classification:
  • QA9 .D2 2005
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.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks QA9 .D2 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000757202

"This edition is a republication of the 4th edition of Number, originally published by Scribner, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Inc."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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