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The language of number
The Amerindians and number
Sumeria and Babylon
Ancient Egypt
Ancient China
Ancient Greek fantasies about number
Ancient Israel
The Indian love-affair with number
The Maya
The Arabs: renaissance of number and science
Francis Bacon and new directions
John Napier: the rationalisation of arithmetic
The Newtonian revolution: the marriage of craftsmanship and scholarship
Babbage, the great unknown
Boole and Boolean logic
Machines which (or who?) think
The electronic computer
The nature of scientific change.
The Amerindians and number
Sumeria and Babylon
Ancient Egypt
Ancient China
Ancient Greek fantasies about number
Ancient Israel
The Indian love-affair with number
The Maya
The Arabs: renaissance of number and science
Francis Bacon and new directions
John Napier: the rationalisation of arithmetic
The Newtonian revolution: the marriage of craftsmanship and scholarship
Babbage, the great unknown
Boole and Boolean logic
Machines which (or who?) think
The electronic computer
The nature of scientific change.