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Number: The Language of Science

{{Short description|Popular mathematics book by Tobias Dantzig}}{{Infobox book

| author = Tobias Dantzig

| pub_date = 1930

| name = Number: The Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-Mathematician

| genre = Mathematics

| country = United States

| language = English

| publisher = Macmillan Publishing

| image = File:Number,_The_Language_of_Science.png

| caption = Title page for Number: The Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-Mathematician (1945 Third edition)

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Number: The Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-Mathematician is a popular mathematics book by Tobias Dantzig. The original U.S. publication was by Macmillan in 1930.Booklist Books, a Selection (1931) listed in last section of [https://books.google.com/books?id=lCwXAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA9-PA10 (1922-1933)] collection of the American Library Association, p.10 A second edition (third impression) was published in 1947 in Prague by Melantrich Company. The book recounts the history of mathematical ideas.{{cite book |last= Dantzig|first=Tobias |date= 1932-11-26|title='Number: The Language of Science (A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-Mathematician |url= |location= |publisher= George Allen & Unwin Ltd|pages=320 |isbn= |accessdate= }}

Chapters

The book has 12 chapters. There is an appendix of illustrations. The third edition contains a separate section for essays, at the book's end.

  1. Fingerprints
  2. The Empty Column
  3. Number Lore
  4. The Last Number
  5. Symbols
  6. The Unutterable
  7. This Flowing World
  8. The Act of Becoming
  9. Filling the Gaps
  10. The Domain of Number
  11. The Anatomy of the Infinite
  12. The Two Realities

References

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  • {{cite journal|last=Miller|first=G. A.|year=1931|title=Review: Tobias Dantzig, Number: The Language of Science. A critical survey written for the cultured non-mathematician|journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society|volume=37|issue=1|doi=10.1090/s0002-9904-1931-05073-4 |url=http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183494498|doi-access=free}}{{open access}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Haldane|first=J. B. S.|year=1941|title=Number: the Language of Science|journal=Nature|volume=147|issue=3714|pages=9|issn=0028-0836|doi=10.1038/147009a0|doi-access=free|bibcode=1941Natur.147....9H }}{{closed access}}

Category:Popular mathematics books

Category:1932 non-fiction books