Perfect figures:the lore of numbers and how we learned to count
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Published: |
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | 2007. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | vi, 271 p.: ; 22 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780312360054 0312360053 |
Index Number: | O1 |
CLC: | O1-539 |
Call Number: | O1-539/C956 |
Contents: |
Exchange. Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]) and index. One is all -- Two is you and your image in the mirror -- Three is a magic number -- Four is a solid number -- Five is for fingers -- Six is perfect -- Seven is a happy number -- Eight is forever -- Nine is a new number -- Zero is not nothing -- Ten means two hands -- Eleven is a leftover number -- Twelve is the last of the basic number names -- Hundred is a strange word -- Thousand is a swollen hundred -- Million is not yet forever -- And one more : the manifest destiny of numbers. |