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Dantzig, Tobias,1884-1956

the language of science

Tobias Dantzig ; edited by Joseph Mazur ; foreword by Barry Mazur

The Masterpiece Science ed

Pi Press

c2005

xviii, 396 p. ill. 22 cm

"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

Mazur, Joseph

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