Explaining the origins : ethnological and psychological approaches to the sources of numbers
Base numbers and the birth of number systems
The earliest calculating machine- the hand
How Cro-Magnon Man counted
Tally sticks : accounting for beginners
The enigma of the sexagesimal base
The development of written numerals in Elam and Mesopotamia
The decipherment of a five-thousand-year-old system
How the Sumerians did their sums
Mesopotamian numbering after the eclipse of Sumer
The numbers of ancient Egypt
Counting in the times of the Cretan and Hittite kings
The invention of alphabetic numerals
Other alphabetic number-systems
Magic, mysticism, divination, and other secrets
The numbers of Chinese civilisation
The amazing achievements of the Maya
The final state of numerical notation
Indian civilisation : the cradle of modern numerals
Dictionary of the numeral symbols of Indian civilisation
Indian numerals and calculation in the Islamic world
The slow progress of Indo-Arabic numerals in Western Europe
