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Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics

By Ekkehard Kopp
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By Ekkehard Kopp
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Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting with elementary concepts, it leads the reader towards aspects of current mathematical research.

The book explains how conceptual hurdles in the development of numbers and number systems were overcome in the course of history, from Babylon to Classical Greece, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and so to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....

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Science & TechnologyMathematicsHistory of MathematicsLogic & Foundations of Mathematics