Uncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present by David Nirenberg, Ricardo Nirenberg

Uncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present

David Nirenberg, Ricardo Nirenberg

432 pages missing pub info (editions)

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"From the time of Pythagoras, we have been tempted to treat numbers as the ultimate or only truth. This book tells the history of that habit of thought. But more, it argues that the logic of counting sacrifices much of what makes us human, and tha...

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