TY - BOOK AU - Dantzig,Tobias AU - Mazur,Joseph TI - Number: the language of science SN - 9780452288119 AV - QA 9 .D195 2005 U1 - IB 510 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - A Plume Book, KW - Number concept KW - Arithmetic KW - History N1 - "This edition is a republication of the 4th edition of Number, originally published by Scribner, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Inc."--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references and index; Fingerprints -- The empty column -- Number-lore -- The last number -- Symbols -- The unutterable -- This flowing world -- The art of becoming -- Filling the gaps -- The domain of number -- The anatomy of the infinite -- The two realities -- On the recording of numbers -- Topics in integers -- On roots and radicals -- On principles and arguments; IB students ER -