ISBN10: 0195089197, ISBN13: 9780195089196, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover
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ISBN10: 0195089197, ISBN13: 9780195089196, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover
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ISBN10: 0195089197, ISBN13: 9780195089196, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. Why is the number seven lucky--even holy--in almost every culture? Why do we speak of the four corners of the earth? Why do cats have nine lives (except in Iran, where they have seven)? From literature to folklore to private superstitions, numbers play a conspicuous role in our daily lives. But in this fascinating book, Annemarie Schimmel shows that numbers have been filled with mystery and meaning since the earliest times, and across everysociety. In The Mystery of Numbers Annemarie Schimmel conducts an illuminating tour of the mysteries attributed to numbers over the centuries. She begins with an informative and often surprisingintroduction to the origins of number systems: pre-Roman Europeans, for example, may have had one based on twenty, not ten (as suggested by the English word "score" and the French word for 80, quatrevingt --four times twenty), while the Mayans had a system more sophisticated than our own. Schimmel also reveals how our fascination with numbers has led to a rich cross-fertilization of mathematical knowledge: "Arabic" numerals, for instance, were picked up by Europe from the Arabs, whohad earlier adopted them from Indian sources ("Algorithm" and "algebra" are corruptions of the Arabic author and title names of a mathematical text prized in medieval Europe). But the heart of the book is ...
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ISBN10: 0195089197, ISBN13: 9780195089196, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover
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