The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life by I.B. Cohen

The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life

I.B. Cohen

209 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science challenging informative fast-paced

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In The Triumph of Numbers, his last work, I. B. Cohen explores how numbers have come to assume a leading role just about everywhere in science, in the operations and structure of government, in the analysis of society, in marketing, in sports, and...

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