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. The original U.S. publication was by Macmillan in 1930.[1] A 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.[2]
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
- ^ Booklist Books, a Selection (1931) listed in last section of (1922-1933) collection of the American Library Association, p.10
- ^ 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.
