Literature about Numbers


Textbooks on Numbers

Ebbinghaus, Heinz-Dieter, Hermes, Hans et al. (1992a). Zahlen. Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York: Springer Verlag.
The first edition appeared in 1983.

Ebbinghaus, Heinz-Dieter, Hermes, Hans et al. (1992b). Numbers. Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York: Springer Verlag.
Translation of a former version of [Ebbinghaus, Hermes, et al. 1992a].

Kramer, Jürg and von Pippich, Anna-Maria (2013). Von den Natürlichen Zahlen zu den Quaternionen. Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York: Springer Verlag.

Kramer, Jürg and von Pippich, Anna-Maria (2017). From Natural Numbers to Quaternions. Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York:Springer Verlag.
Translation of [Kramer and Pippich 2013] into English.

Landau, Edmund (1930). Grundlagen der Analysis. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft.
Reprint Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, (1963).

Landau, Edmund (1966). Foundations of Analysis. Providence, Rhode Island: AMS Chelsea Publishing.
Translation of [Landau 1930] into English.



Textbooks on the History of Numbers

Ifrah, Georges (1981). Histoire Universelle des Chiffres. Paris: Editions Seghers.
For an English and a German version see [Ifrah 1998] and [Ifrah 1989].

Ifrah, Georges (1989). Universalgeschichte der Zahlen. Frankfurt, New York: Campus-Verlag.
German Translation of [Ifrah 1981].

Ifrah, Georges (1998). Universal History of Numbers. London: Harville Press.
English Translation of [Ifrah 1981].