Number the Language of Science 4TH Edition

by Tobias Dantzig

"This is beyond doubt the most interesting book on the evolution of mathematics which has ever fallen into my hands." -- Albert Einstein

Unknown Binding

About the author

Tobias Dantzig (February 19, 1884 – August 9, 1956) was a mathematician of Baltic German and Russian American heritage, the father of George Dantzig, and the author of Number: The Language of Science (A critical survey written for the cultured non-mathematician) (1930) and Aspects of Science (New York, Macmillan, 1937).