Re: the origin of the Arabic numerals

From: Peter Moxhay (moxhap@portlandschools.org)
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 06:44:11 PST


> Does any of you manage a handy reference concerning the history of the
> Arabic numerals? If it can be tracked by Internet, even better!
>
> David

David,

If you want a lot of details, I highly recommend the book by Georges
Ifrah
"The Universal History of Numbers."

Peter



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