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Number plays an essential role in our culture as indeed it does in any recognisable form of society. However far we go back in history, we can be certain that number has played its part in ways of thought and in human reaction to the world. This book is essentially about number in some of its many aspects.
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A. Seidenberg, ‘The Diffusion of Counting Practices’, University of California Publications in Mathematics 3, 4 (1960).
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Flegg, G. (1989). Introduction. In: Flegg, G. (eds) Numbers Through the Ages. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20177-8_1
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