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Originally published: Great Britain : Bloomsbury Pub., 1991.

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.

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