Georges Ifrah

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Georges Ifrah (1947-) was a professor of mathematics, and a historian of mathematics, especially numerals.

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Histoire universelle des chiffres (Seghers, puis Bouquins, Robert Laffont, 1994 (Ifrah, G. The Universal History of Numbers: From prehistory to the invention of the computer. John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2000. Translated from the French by David Bellos, E.F. Harding, Sophie Wood and Ian Monk)