Number: The Language of Science
Number: The Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-Mathematician is a popular mathematics book written by Russian-American mathematician Tobias Dantzig. Its second edition (third impression) was published in 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia by Melantrich Company. It recounts the history of mathematical ideas, and how they have evolved.[1]
Chapters
The book is divided into 12 chapters. There is an appendix of illustrations. The third edition of the book contains a separate section for essays, at the book's end.
- Fingerprints
- The Empty Column
- Number Lore
- The Last Number
- Symbols
- The Unutterable
- This Flowing World
- The Act of Becoming
- Filling the Gaps
- The Domain of Number
- The Anatomy of the Infinite
- The Two Realities
References
- ↑ Dantzig, Tobias (1932-11-26). 'Number: The Language of Science (A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-Mathematician. George Allen & Unwin Ltd. p. 320.
- Miller, G. A. (1931). "Review: Tobias Dantzig, Number: The Language of Science. A critical survey written for the cultured non-mathematician". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 37 (1). doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1931-05073-4.
- Haldane, J. B. S. (1941). "Number: the Language of Science". Nature 147 (3714): 9–9. doi:10.1038/147009a0. ISSN 0028-0836.
