The magic of numbers

London,: McGraw-Hill book company (1946)
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It probes the work of Pythagoras, Galileo, Berkeley, Einstein, and others, exploring how "number magic" has influenced religion, philosophy, science, and mathematics

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QA9.B393

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0486267881   9780486267883   130690871X

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