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256 pages • first pub 2015 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781137279842
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for...
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256 pages • first pub 2015 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781137279842
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for...