Description: A comprehensive history of numbers in Antiquity period.
Brief description: Michael N. Fried is chair of the Program for Science and Technology Education in the School of Education at Ben Gurion University. He is the author of Apollonius of Perga's Conica: Text, Context, and Subtext with Sabetai Unguru (Brill 2001), Apollonius of Perga's Conics, Book IV: Translation, Introduction, and Diagrams (Green Lion Press 2002), and Edmund Halley's Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius' Conics: Translation from Latin, Introduction and Commentary (Springer 2011).
Review Quotes: ""World-class scholars contextualize mathematical theories and practices within the lived reality of the global ancient world. A path-breaking volume, teeming with important original insights and casting a new light on the history of mathematics."" --Glenn W. Most, University of Chicago, USA