<<<< The cultural aspects of the development of numbers are emphasized in
Karl Menninger: Number Words and Number Symbols. (translation from "Zahlwort
und Ziffer", 1st ed. in German: 1957). The publisher of the English
translation was, I believe, an American university press.>>>>
<<This is now available as an inexpensive reprint from Dover Books. >>
Yes but this edition is incomplete. Inter alia, the bibliography has been
left out! as Julio Gonzalez Cabillon informed historia-matematica on 13 July,
1998.
-Bill Everdell, Brooklyn