Zero to Infinity: A History of Numbers

Zero to Infinity: A History of Numbers

Speaking the Language of Numbers (1x3)


: 01, 2007

As numbers became useful to count and record as well as calculate and predict, many societies, including the Sumerians, Egyptians, Mayans, and Chinese, invented sophisticated numeral systems; arithmetic developed. Negative numbers, Arabic numerals, multiplication, and division made number an area for abstract, imaginative study as well as for everyday use.

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