Name Karl Menninger Role Writer | Died October 2, 1963 | |
Books Number Words and Number Symbols: A Cultural History of Numbers | ||
Karl Menninger (October 6, 1898 – October 2, 1963) was a German teacher of and writer about mathematics. His major work was Zahlwort und Ziffer (1934,; English trans., Number Words and Number Symbols), about non-academic mathematics in much of the world. (The omission of Africa was rectified by Claudia Zaslavsky in her book Africa Counts.)
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