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Author : Sir James Allanson PICTON
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Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)
Download or read book On the Origin and History of the Numerals. A paper, etc written by Sir James Allanson PICTON and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9780371563878
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (638 download)
Download or read book On the Origin and History of the Numerals, a Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adel S. Bishtawi
Publisher : Authorhouse UK
ISBN 13 : 9781456785864
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Origin of the Arabic Numerals written by Adel S. Bishtawi and published by Authorhouse UK. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wonder of the unique Arabic numerals is so blunted by common use we forget sometimes that their sudden disappearance might cause our civilisation to grind to a halt with catastrophic consequences. The invention of the system was as a great a revolution as the invention of writing, and to both the transition from barbarism to civilisation is attributed. Indeed, both may have a single source created in a time beyond the horizon of our remotest past. Contrary to what is generally believed, there lies the origin of the Arabic numerals - beyond the horizon of our remotest past. The history of our ancient numerals has been an intriguing mystery. For over two centuries historians of numbers have tried to trace the roots of the system. Hundreds of manuscripts have been analysed and then reanalysed, historical accounts studied, and book after book churned out but remarkably, solid leads to the origin of the numerals remained cold. Almost despairingly, Karl Menninger confessed that the "desire to hold in one's hand the key to a mystery which experts have sought for in vain remains alive in all periods of history". In this thoroughly researched book, historian Adel S. Bishtawi believes the mystery has been unlocked, and in the process, much more was found than expected. If his conclusions are correct, our numerals, which are miniature drawings of the hand and fingers, may be 5000-7000 years old. Moreover, it is known that numerals were invented before the letters of alphabets. It is probable that some of these numerals were employed as letters in the universal alphabet used by most nations.
Author : Levi Leonard Conant
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Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Number Concept written by Levi Leonard Conant and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zelda King
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823988709
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (887 download)
Download or read book The Story of Our Numbers written by Zelda King and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the history of written numbers, from ancient Roman numerals to the invention of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system and the spread of the Arabic numeral system around the world.
Author : Levi Leonard Conant
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ISBN 13 : 9781076093950
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (939 download)
Download or read book The Number Concept written by Levi Leonard Conant and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book which though small bears evidence of a wonderful amount of research and labor. The author, Professor Conant, has drawn from every possible source to give the reader information upon the origin of number, the use ol numerals, the terms used in mathematics, in the weights and measures, and in every conceivable direction where number comes into use. At first sight the book seems to be dry, or, to say the least, adapted only to the comprehension of those to whom mathematics is a delight or a necessity; but as one looks over the pages very interesting matter is revealed and there is an immense amount of information written in a very attractive style. --"The Buffalo Commercial."Prof. L. L. Conant, of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in his opening chapter on "Counting'' in his just published work on " The Number Concept, Its Origin and Development," says: "Among the speculative questions which arise in connection with the study of arithmetic from a historical standpoint the origin of number is one that has provoked the most lively discussion and has led to a great amount of learned research among the primitive and savage languages of the human race.Prof. Conant can find no trace in the history of even the most barbarous tribes where there is not at least some familiarity with the number concept. This knowledge is in some cases extremely limited. Among some of the forest tribes of Brazil and the native races of Australia the knowledge of numbers does not go beyond 1 and 2, or 1, 2 and 3, but there is the knowledge all the same. There is at least the concept even in the lowest condition of savagery of a difference between one and two, or at least between one and many.Some idea of the scope of this most interesting work may be had from the chapter titles, Counting, Number System Limits, Origin of Number Words, Miscellaneous Number Bases, The Quinary System, and the Vigesimal System. The work shows great research and Prof. Conant has drawn as far as possible upon original resources. He has also taken great care in the selection of his authorities, and makes his work an attractive one even to those who have little or no interest in mathematics. --"The Boston Daily Advertiser."
Author : Frederick Converse Beach
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Total Pages : 1178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Americana written by Frederick Converse Beach and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Levi L Conant
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Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The Number Concept written by Levi L Conant and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the speculative questions which arise in connection with the study of arithmetic from a historical standpoint, the origin of number is one that has provoked much lively discussion, and has led to a great amount of learned research among the primitive and savage languages of the human race. A few simple considerations will, however, show that such research must necessarily leave this question entirely unsettled, and will indicate clearly that it is, from the very nature of things, a question to which no definite and final answer can be given.Among the barbarous tribes whose languages have been studied, even in a most cursory manner, none have ever been discovered which did not show some familiarity with the number concept. The knowledge thus indicated has often proved to be most limited; not extending beyond the numbers 1 and 2, or 1, 2, and 3. Examples of this poverty of number knowledge are found among the forest tribes of Brazil, the native races of Australia and elsewhere, and they are considered in some detail in the next chapter. At first thought it seems quite inconceivable that any human being should be destitute of the power of counting beyond 2. But such is the case; and in a few instances languages have been found to be absolutely destitute of pure numeral words.
Author : British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Total Pages : 472 pages
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Download or read book General catalogue of printed books written by British museum. Dept. of printed books and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Levi L Conant
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Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The Number Concept written by Levi L Conant and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the speculative questions which arise in connection with the study of arithmetic from a historical standpoint, the origin of number is one that has provoked much lively discussion, and has led to a great amount of learned research among the primitive and savage languages of the human race. A few simple considerations will, however, show that such research must necessarily leave this question entirely unsettled, and will indicate clearly that it is, from the very nature of things, a question to which no definite and final answer can be given.Among the barbarous tribes whose languages have been studied, even in a most cursory manner, none have ever been discovered which did not show some familiarity with the number concept. The knowledge thus indicated has often proved to be most limited; not extending beyond the numbers 1 and 2, or 1, 2, and 3. Examples of this poverty of number knowledge are found among the forest tribes of Brazil, the native races of Australia and elsewhere, and they are considered in some detail in the next chapter. At first thought it seems quite inconceivable that any human being should be destitute of the power of counting beyond 2. But such is the case; and in a few instances languages have been found to be absolutely destitute of pure numeral words.
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Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 472 pages
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Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The American written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Euclid
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Total Pages : 544 pages
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Download or read book Euclid's Elements written by Euclid and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book includes introductions, terminology and biographical notes, bibliography, and an index and glossary" --from book jacket.
Author : Georges Ifrah
Publisher : Penguin Group
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Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book From One to Zero written by Georges Ifrah and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1987 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traces the development of numerical systems in Sumerian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Chinese, Babylonian, and Mayan cultures, and examines the origins of the Hindu-Arabic numerals we use today"--Back cover.
Author : Csaba Varga
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781490484402
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (844 download)
Download or read book The History of Numerals and Number-Writing written by Csaba Varga and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author investigated 30,000 years writing-history of humanity in his previous book Signs Letters Alphabet. This book ads to his investigation everything he could find about numbers and number writing in our history. The ancient numerals: the dot, line, a line perpendicular to it (I) and a long line. Every one of these signs marked its own local value. Thus, we can write every number with different arrangements of these four signs. The reader can compare the 17,000-year-old numeral pictured on the front of this book (written on the cave's wall in Lascaux) with the 19th century signs seen on the inside of this back cover. The earliest found dot-line numeral so far is around 30,000 years old. Finds with such recordings get more numerous as we approach our time. This method was used, unchanged, in Ancient Egypt through its history, in China, by the Mayans, by the Aramaic culture in Middle East, the Eskimos and even in the salt mines of Transylvanian until the start of 20th century. Everybody did it, because there was no other kind of number-writing. We are no exception either. Our “Arabic” number-writing has a Palaeolithic origin also, except that the signs became over-ornamented in India, changing to “cifra” (adornment, ciphers), before arriving in Europe. The Palaeolithic calculator had two basic signs: dot and line. The lines could be drawn in the sand as in Egypt or even somewhere in Africa today. The dots could be pebbles, marbles, kernels or shells. The very fast calculator, with wires and beads on them is still used world wide, its name and form varies from abacus (Latin) to soroban (Japan) or from schoti Russia) to suan pan (China).
Author : Linwood S. Howeth
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Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book History of Communications Electronics in the United States Navy written by Linwood S. Howeth and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
