- Title : Number Words and Number Symbols: A Cultural History of Numbers
- Author : Karl Menninger
- Rating : 4.80 (148 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-3-15
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 510 Pages
- Asin : 0486270963
- Language : English
Much of the energy of the book is that it is a very recent story, the main events taking place just in the last six years.The story is in three parts. In 2001 the maize crops failed, plunging the countryside into famine and near social collapse
Much of the energy of the book is that it is a very recent story, the main events taking place just in the last six years.The story is in three parts. In 2001 the maize crops failed, plunging the countryside into famine and near social collapse, and William loses friends to disease and starvation. Industrial Motor Control was a very educational book and a great classroom tool.. It has two rooster pages and I'm missing the pig page. She also has a built-in diet plan that covers what you should eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner and for snacks. So I decided to give it a try and see what the hype was about.For the first 10% of the book (Kindle doesn't have page numbers) I really was regretting the purchase. I don't think there's anyone who has hiked over more of the Catskill Mountains than Michael Kudish. And they never measured the women's blood pressure or cholesterol levels or any other ordinary lab tests that your doctor does on a routine visit. And he did. Maura & Nate know each other since they're kids. Not sure how they can show this to kindergarteners (for whom this bookMoreover, almost 300 illustrations (photographs and drawings) and many comparative language tables serve to enhance the text. 'The historian of mathematics will find much to interest him here while the casual reader is likely to be intrigued by the author's superior narrative ability." — Library Journal
This book is not only a fascinating introduction to the concept of number and to numbers themselves, hut a multifaceted linguistic and historical analysis of how numbers have developed and evolved in many different cultures. He then turns to written numerals and computations: finger counting, folk symbols for numbers, alphabetical numerals, the "German" Roman numerals, the abacus and more. The author concludes with a review of spoken numbers and number symbols in China and Japan.
"The book is especially good on early counting and calculating devices: primitive tally sticks, the knotted cords of ancient Peru, the elaborate finger symbols once used for numbers, counting boards with movable counters, and of course the abacus." — Martin Gardner, Book World. The final section concerns the development of our modem decimal system, with its place notation and zero, based on the Indian number system, and its introduction to the West through the work of the Italian mathematician Fibonacci. Drawing on evidence from history, literature, philosophy and ethnology, noted German scholar Karl Menninger. The author begins with a lucid treatment of nIts large pages are handsomely bound, carefully indexed, and enriched by 282 pictures, mostly photographs, that are as fascinating as the lively text itself. "Menninger's story is a colorful mix of mathematics, linguistics and cultural anthropology." —Martin Gardner, BookWorld"The book points out many fascinating but not obvious connections between the varied meanings of words used today (such as score and tally) and between words in different languages which have common roots. Menninger, is a magnificent history of how mankind discovered numbers, invented a bewildering variety of ways to name, symbolize and manipulate them, and how those ways altered over the millennia. "Menninger was a German mathematician of such panoramic interests and expository skill that he became one of his country's most widely read authors of nontechnical books on mathematics. This splendid translation of the revised 1958 edition of Menninger's most ambitious
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