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Arithmetic / Paul Lockhart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lockhart, Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arithmetic--History.
- Arithmetic.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : 58 line illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "Inspiring and informative...deserves to be widely read." -- Wall Street Journal "This fun book offers a philosophical take on number systems and revels in the beauty of math." -- Science News Because we have ten fingers, grouping by ten seems natural, but twelve would be better for divisibility, and eight is well suited to repeated halving.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dear Reader
- Things
- Language
- Repetition
- Three Tribes
- Egypt
- Rome
- China and Japan
- India
- Europe
- Multiplication
- Division
- Machines
- Fractions
- Negative Numbers
- The Art of Counting
- Afterword
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-98153-7
- OCLC:
- 1054881689
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