The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer, Volume 1The book explores the science of numeration as it has developed all over the world, from Europe to China, via the Classical World, Mesopotamia, South America and, above all, India and the Arab lands. |
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Page 154
... mathematical tablet from Susa a scribe tried to explain the result of such an operation , thus : 20 minus 20 comes to . . . you see ? Similarly , in another mathematical text from Susa , at the end of an operation ( referring to the ...
... mathematical tablet from Susa a scribe tried to explain the result of such an operation , thus : 20 minus 20 comes to . . . you see ? Similarly , in another mathematical text from Susa , at the end of an operation ( referring to the ...
Page 469
... mathematical classification , see Indian written numeral systems ( The mathe- matical classification of ) . INDIAN WRITTEN NUMERAL SYSTEMS ( The mathematical classification of ) . Here is a 23.31 ) . There is no known example of this ...
... mathematical classification , see Indian written numeral systems ( The mathe- matical classification of ) . INDIAN WRITTEN NUMERAL SYSTEMS ( The mathematical classification of ) . Here is a 23.31 ) . There is no known example of this ...
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... mathematical object in its own right , obeying the laws of calculation . Mathematical arguments and calculations could therefore be abbreviated and systematised , and abstraction became directly accessible . Leibnitz wrote that " This ...
... mathematical object in its own right , obeying the laws of calculation . Mathematical arguments and calculations could therefore be abbreviated and systematised , and abstraction became directly accessible . Leibnitz wrote that " This ...
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Ethnological and Psychological | 3 |
CHAPTER 4 | 62 |
CHAPTER 6 | 70 |
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