The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer by Georges Ifrah

The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer

Georges Ifrah

656 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science informative slow-paced
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Now in paperback, here is Georges Ifrah’s landmark international bestseller–the first complete, universal study of the invention and evolution of numbers the world over. A riveting history of counting and calculating, from the time of the cave dwe...

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