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Number / John McLeish.
- Title
- Number / John McLeish.
- Author
- McLeish, John (Psychiatrist)
- Publication
- London : Bloomsbury, 1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | QA141.2 .M38 1991 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 266 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- At head of title: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.
- Bibliography: p253-256. - Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-256) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The language of number -- The Amerindians and number -- Sumeria and Babylon -- Ancient Egypt -- Ancient China -- Ancient Greek fantasies about number -- Ancient Israel -- The Indian love-affair with number -- The Maya -- The Arabs : Renaissance of number and science -- Francis Bacon and new directions -- John Napier : the rationalisation of arithmetic -- The Newtonian revolution : the marriage of craftsmanship and scholarship -- Babbage, the great unknown -- Boole and Boolean logic -- Machines which (or who?) think -- The electronic computer -- The nature of scientific change.
- ISBN
- 0747509212
- LCCN
- gb^92014951^
- OCLC
- 26360554
- SCSB-11698994
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library