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
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was rectified by
Claudia Zaslavsky in her book ''Africa Counts''.)
References
*Dauben, Joseph Warren, and Christoph Scriba, eds. (2002), ''Writing the History of Mathematics'', Birkhäuser, Basel, page 483.
*Menninger, Karl (1934), ''Zahlwort und Ziffer''. Revised edition (1958). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht.
*Menninger, Karl (1969), ''Number Words and Number Symbols''. Cambridge, Mass.: The M.I.T. Press.
German historians of mathematics
Ethnomathematicians
20th-century German mathematicians
1898 births
1963 deaths
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