Author: DANTZIG, TOBIAS
Title: Number - The Language of Science
Description: NY. Macmillan, later printing (1967) of the 1954 Fourth Ed. 1967. Hardcover with dust jacket. Hardback, octavo, 5 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches, [xii] + 340 pages, Very Near Fine in VG+ to Near Fine dj (dj fitted w/ protective mylar sleeve). Book about flawless inside and out w/ publisher's dark red topstain: tight binding, unmarked, only a very small bump lower edge front cover. DJ crisp, clean & bright, price corner intact, single 3/16ths inch closed tear lower edge back panel adjacent heel of spine (pretty much invisible & unnoticeable). Includes author's Prefaces to the First & Fourth Editions + Index of Names & Index of Subjects. Chapters incl Fingerprints, The Empty Column, Number-Lore, The Last Number, Symbols, The Unutterable, On The Recording of Numbers, etc. Near Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: Mathematics Math History of Science