Number: The Language of Science

Tobias Dantzig, Joseph Mazur, Barry Mazur9780131856271, 0-13-185627-8

Einstein himself praised this fascinating work on numbers, which was first published in 1930, then revised and expanded through the 1954 4th ed. reprinted here with a foreword by Barry Mazur (Harvard U.) and a brief preface by his brother Joseph Mazur (Marlboro College). The story is written for the general reader and conveys in simple, clear language, with many examples and quotes, the great and profound meaning that lies behind the human invention of numbers and math by showing their relation to human knowledge and experience of all kinds. New endnotes and an annotated bibliography have been added

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Table of contents :
Cover Page……Page 1
Title Page……Page 4
ISBN 0131856278……Page 5
Contents……Page 6
Foreword……Page 8
Editor’s Note to the Masterpiece Science Edition……Page 15
Preface to the Fourth Edition……Page 16
Preface to the First Edition……Page 18
1 Fingerprints……Page 20
2 The Empty Column……Page 38
3 Number-lore……Page 56
4 The Last Number……Page 78
5 Symbols……Page 98
6 The Unutterable……Page 122
7 This Flowing World……Page 144
8 The Art of Becoming……Page 164
9 Filling the Gaps……Page 190
10 The Domain of Number……Page 206
11 The Anatomy of the Infinite……Page 234
12 The Two Realities……Page 258
Appendixes……Page 278
A. On the Recording of Numbers……Page 280
B. Topics in Integers……Page 296
C. On Roots and Radicals……Page 322
D. On Principles and Arguments……Page 346
Afterword……Page 362
Notes……Page 370
Further Readings……Page 392
A……Page 404
C……Page 405
D……Page 406
E……Page 407
H……Page 408
I……Page 409
J,K,L,M……Page 410
P……Page 411
Q,R……Page 413
T……Page 414
X,Y,Z……Page 415