[OT] Ifrah's book (was: Re: Malayalam Zero - an error?)

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Thu Apr 07 2005 - 01:42:34 CST

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    N. Ganesan <naa dot ganesan at gmail dot com> wrote:

    > Georges Ifrah, The universal history
    > of Numbers from prehistory to the
    > invention of the computer,
    > John Wiley, 2000. This book is a classic.

    Very true -- and I got my copy for next to nothing, probably 12 to 15
    USD, on the vertical rack at Borders, between "The Complete History of
    Lacrosse" and "Tractors of Central Europe."

    -Doug Ewell
     Fullerton, California
     http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/



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