''The Math Book'' (Sterling Publishing, 2009. ) is a book by American author

Clifford A. Pickover Clifford Alan Pickover (born August 15, 1957) is an American author, editor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, science fiction, innovation, and creativity. For many years, he was employed at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Researc ...

Summary

The book contains 250 one-page articles on milestones in the history of math. Each article is followed by a related full-page color image.

Criticism

Pickover states, “The Latin translation f Al-Khuwarizmi's Algebraintroduced the decimal positional number system to Europe” (84). Later, Pickover writes that Fibonacci's Liber Abaci "introduced the Hindu-Arabic numerals and decimal system to Western Europe" (100).

Reception

The book has consistently received good reviews. The book has been praised by

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. The book is the winner of the Von Neumann Prize. The book has been praised by

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