A brief history of numbers
Leo Corry (Author)
The world around us is saturated with numbers. They are a fundamental pillar of our modern society, and accepted and used with hardly a second thought. But how did this state of affairs come to be? In this book, Leo Corry tells the story behind the idea of "number," from the early days of the Pythagoreans up until the turn of the 20th century. He presents an overview of how numbers were handled and conceived in classical Greek mathematics, in the mathematics of Islam, in European mathematics of the middle ages and the Renaissance, during the scientific revolution, all the way through to the early 20th century and the inauguration of the modern idea of number
Print Book, English, 2015
First edition
Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2015