Difference between revisions of "The Story of Mathematics"
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* The book is fully illustrated. | * The book is fully illustrated. | ||
| − | * The book starts with pre-number systems like tick marks, and talks about various early counting systems like Roman Numerals and base-5, 12 and 60 systems, and the Chinese multiplicative system, before finally getting to the Hindu-Qrabic system. This is a great introduction to teaching how numbers are a something humans had to invent rather than be actual things. It also talks about early versions of zero before finally getting the true placeholder, and negative numbers. | + | * The book starts with pre-number systems like tick marks, and talks about various early counting systems like Roman Numerals and base-5, 12 and 60 systems, and the Chinese multiplicative system, before finally getting to the Hindu-Qrabic system. This is a great introduction to teaching how numbers are a something humans had to invent rather than be actual things. It also talks about early versions of zero before finally getting the true placeholder, and negative numbers, and fractions. |
| + | * I like how it discusses how early cultures don't have words for big numbers, and, when they do, they're cumbersome. | ||
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* The magazine layout with lots of sidebars makes it very difficult to read. | * The magazine layout with lots of sidebars makes it very difficult to read. | ||
Revision as of 12:07, 17 March 2023
The Story of Mathematics is a book about the history of mathematics written by Anne Rooney and published on.
Personal
I own a paperback. O read it shortly after buying it. Then, wanting to reread it.
Review
Good
- The book is fully illustrated.
- The book starts with pre-number systems like tick marks, and talks about various early counting systems like Roman Numerals and base-5, 12 and 60 systems, and the Chinese multiplicative system, before finally getting to the Hindu-Qrabic system. This is a great introduction to teaching how numbers are a something humans had to invent rather than be actual things. It also talks about early versions of zero before finally getting the true placeholder, and negative numbers, and fractions.
- I like how it discusses how early cultures don't have words for big numbers, and, when they do, they're cumbersome.
Bad
- The magazine layout with lots of sidebars makes it very difficult to read.
