Number: The Language of Science


Number: The Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-Mathematician is a popular mathematics book by Tobias Dantzig. The original U.S. publication was by Macmillan in 1930. A second edition was published in 1947 in Prague by Melantrich Company. The book recounts the history of mathematical ideas.

Chapters

The book has 12 chapters. There is an appendix of illustrations. The third edition contains a separate section for essays, at the book's end.
  1. Fingerprints
  2. The Empty Column
  3. Number Lore
  4. The Last Number
  5. Symbols
  6. The Unutterable
  7. This Flowing World
  8. The Act of Becoming
  9. Filling the Gaps
  10. The Domain of Number
  11. The Anatomy of the Infinite
  12. The Two Realities