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The universal history of numbers : from prehistory to the invention of the computer

Georges Ifrah, David Bellos (Translator)
Chronicles the history of counting and calculating from the time of cave dwellers to the late twentieth century, examining how different cultures used numbers to solve basic problems related to their everyday needs

Print Book, English, 2000-
Wiley, New York, 2000-