Menninger, Karl: Number Words and Number Symbols: A Cultural History of Numbers

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Menninger, Karl : Number Words and Number Symbols: A Cultural History of Numbers

MIT Press, Cambridge, 1970

B&W Illustrations The work embraces the full span of recorded history as it unfolded in cultures throughout the world--Chinese, Sumerian, Slavic, Greek, Roman, Aztec, Mayan, Celtic, Indian, Finnish, Babylonian. It recounts the development of both numbers as they are spoken and written as words and the symbolic, abstract numerals that can be readily manipulated and combined, Very Good in Very Good DJ, 8vo

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