Karl Menninger (mathematics)

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This article is about the mathematician. For the psychiatrist, see Karl Menninger.

Karl Menninger (October 6, 1898 – October 2, 1963) was a German teacher of and writer about mathematics. His major work was Zahlwort und Ziffer (1934,; English trans., Number Words and Number Symbols), about non-academic mathematics in much of the world. (The omission of Africa was rectified by Claudia Zaslavsky in her book Africa Counts.)

References

Dauben, Joseph Warren, and Christoph Scriba, eds. (2002), Writing the History of Mathematics, Birkhäuser, Basel, page 483.
Menninger, Karl (1934), Zahlwort und Ziffer. Revised edition (1958). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht.
Menninger, Karl (1969), Number Words and Number Symbols. Cambridge, Mass.: The M.I.T. Press.

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Name	Menninger, Karl
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Short description	German mathematician
Date of birth	October 6, 1898
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Date of death	October 2, 1963
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