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The Universal Book of Mathematics

From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes

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The Universal Book of Mathematics

From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes

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Wiley
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English
Pages
400

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Subjects
Mathematics, Nonfiction, Encyclopedias, Wiskunde, Mathematik

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The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes
August 11, 2004, Wiley
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The Universal Book of Mathematics
2004, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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First Sentence

"A counting frame that started out, several thousand years ago, as rows of pebbles in the desert sands of the Middle East."

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Library of Congress
QA5 .D27 2004, QA5.D27 2004

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7614373M
Internet Archive
universalbookofm0000darl
ISBN 10
0471270474
ISBN 13
9780471270478
LCCN
2003024670
OCLC/WorldCat
53434727
Library Thing
1522614
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84747

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