The history of numbers. Numbers, symbols, words

This edition is a fundamental set of knowledge about the origin of numbers and numerals, about the development of numerical sequence and numerical language-the main work of the German Mathematician scientist Karl Menninger. The author in an accessible form, mostly in the form of entertaining stories, leads the reader to the concept of a number, gives a multilateral analysis of the emergence of numbers and their development in different cultures. Of particular interest is the story of ancient devices for the account: primitive counting sticks, cords with nodes of ancient pen, complex finger gestures, which were once used as numbers, counting boards with tokens, Abake ... Many illustrations and tables that are compared in which are compared. The numbers and their spelling in different languages ​​help the perception of the text