Number: The Language of Science, 2nd edition, revised

by Tobias Dantzig

A critical survey written for the cultured non-mathematician. Though this book does not presuppose on the part of the reader a mathematical education, it presupposes something which is just as a capacity for absorbing and appraising ideas.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1937

About the author

Tobias Dantzig (February 19, 1884 – August 9, 1956) was a mathematician of Baltic German and Russian American heritage, the father of George Dantzig, and the author of Number: The Language of Science (A critical survey written for the cultured non-mathematician) (1930) and Aspects of Science (New York, Macmillan, 1937).