There is also an article in the "Dictionary of the History of Ideas",
ed. P. P. Wiener, vol. 3, 399-407 (New York: Scribner's, 1973).
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.
Christoph J. Scriba
Universit"at Hamburg
Institut f"ur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften,
Mathematik und Technik
Bundesstr. 55
D - 20146 Hamburg
Germany
scriba@math.uni-hamburg.de
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> Here some suggestions from the already existing literature on the subject:
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> Christoph J. Scriba, The concept of number, Bibliographisches Institut
> Mannheim/Zu"rich 1968 (= B.I-Hochschulskripten vol. 825/825a).
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> If you and your colleagues are willing to consider non-English literature
> as well, there are two more German books:
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> Helmuth Gericke, Geschichte des Zahlbegriffs (history of the concept of
> number), Bibliographisches Institut Mannheim/Wien/Zu"rich 1970 (=
> B.I.-Hochschultaschenbu"cher vol. 172/172a) and
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> Johannes Tropfke, Geschichte der Elementarmathematik, fourth edition by
> Kurt Vogel, Karin Reich, Helmuth Gericke, Walter de Gruyter Berlin/NY 1980,
> especially chapter 1.3 "Der Zahlbegriff und seine Erweiterungen" of this
> very carefully researched book.
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> Ivo Schneider
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