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The Name of the Number
The Name of the Number is the second book in The Emergence of Number series. It looks at the history and anthropology of the ways in which numbers have been expressed throughout the ages and across different cultures dealing with the different languages of the world, the different ways that number representation has been structured, the history and prehistory of number concepts, the ways in which numerical representation (in word and symbol) and their evolution over time.
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- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1041262
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/112836756#Topic/numeration_histoire
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/112836756#Topic/numeration
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/112836756#Topic/mathematics_number_systems
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- "The Name of the Number is the second book in The Emergence of Number series. It looks at the history and anthropology of the ways in which numbers have been expressed throughout the ages and across different cultures dealing with the different languages of the world, the different ways that number representation has been structured, the history and prehistory of number concepts, the ways in which numerical representation (in word and symbol) and their evolution over time."@en
- "The Name of the Number We're used to the idea that 'closely related' languages have words that are similar to English. For example, the word for 'three' in Latin, French, Italian and German is 'tres', 'trois', 'tre' and 'drei'. But did you know that the word for 'three' in Sanskrit is 'trayah'? How can words from completely different languages and cultures be so similar? Why do unrelated languages like English, Japanese and Chinese all possess a 'base ten' counting system? Did you know that the Latin root of the word 'calculate' means 'pebble'? The Name of the Number looks at the histor"@en