Man number account development (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 115 pages. Ex-university library marks, pages toned; a sound binding. The jacket has some staining and wear, a piece cut away from the spine. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Mathematics; ISBN: 0875231071. ISBN/EAN: 9780875231075. Inventory No: 219067. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Smeltzer, Donald. Man and number : an account of the development of man's use of number through the ages. First edition. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1953. Hardback, VG, in GOOD, unclipped dustjacket, a little grubby, with shelfwear to edges and some small nicks and tears repaired from the inside with brown paper tape. Maroon cloth with silver lettering to spine. Binding strong. Small ownership signature to ffep. light foxing to endpapers. viii, 114pp., b/w illustrations. Contents clean and bright. From describing the possible process by which number words came about to the invention of logarithms, mathematician Smeltzer presents a history of number symbols and the growing ability of humans to manipulate them. Along the way, he discusses the Sumerian and Babylonian counting systems, the counting board and the abacus and much else. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. …