Subject: Re: [HM] The Universal History of Numbers
From: Michael Fried (mfried@ramat-negev.org.il)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 09:09:34 EDT
Heinz Lueneburg wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> 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
Dear Heinz,
I happen to own the translation mentioned above (Harvill Press, 1998), so I can
tell you it DOES have an index, 17 large pages!.
Michael N. Fried
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