The history of numbers. Numbers, symbols, words. Menninger K.

This Edition is a fundamental set of knowledge about the origin of numbers and numerals, about the development of a numerical sequence and a numerical language-the main work of the German scientist-mathematician Karl Mennger. The author in an accessible form, mostly in the form of entertaining stories, leads the reader to the concept of a number, gives a multilateral analysis of the emergence of numbers and their development in different cultures.

Particular interest in ancient devices for the account: primitive counting sticks, cords with nodes of an ancient pen, complex finger gestures, which were once used as numbers, counting boards with tokens, Abake. A lot of illustrations and tables in which the numbers are compared and their spelling in different languages ​​help perception of the text.