The Story of Mathematics
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Paperback - USA - 1st edition. |
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The Story of Mathematics is a book about the history of mathematics written by Anne Rooney and published in 2008. It is part of Rooney's Story Of series.
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Personal
Personal
Own? | Paperback - USA - 1st edition. |
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Read? | Paperback - USA - 1st edition. |
Finished | 201?. |
I own a paperback. I probably bought it in the discount section of a book store around 2012. I read it shortly after buying it and liked it. Wanting to create a page for it in this Wiki, I reread.
Review
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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.
Ugly
- Nothing.