Subject: Re: [HM] The Universal History of Numbers
From: Heinz Lueneburg (luene@mathematik.uni-kl.de)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2000 - 03:32:54 EDT
>
> The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention
> of the Computer
> Georges Ifrah, (Translated from the French by David Bellos, E. F.
> Harding, Sophie Wood, and Ian Monk)
>
> ISBN: 0-471-37568-3
> Hardcover
> Price: US$39.95
> Published: Nov 1999
> Copyright: 1998
>
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It was in the early eigthies, when I saw this book for the first time. It
was an Italian translation. Coming home from Italy, I ordered the French
original. The information included in the book is really overwhelming. But
-- there is a large but -- the book does not have an index. The consequence
is that one can read it, but one cannot use it, if you understand what I
mean. So far, I have seen several translations of the book, also an English
one. None had an index. Is the translation mentioned above a new one? Does
it have an index?
By the way, Ifrah's book is not the first on the subject. Menninger's
"Zahlwort und Ziffer" is much earlier and it is also not restricted to
European culture. Menninger's book has an index.
Heinz Lueneburg
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