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040			_aAM-YeNLA _beng _cAM-YeNLA
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100	1		_aHogben, Lancelot Thomas _d1895-1975
245	1	0	_aMathematics for the million / _cby Lancelot Thomas Hogben, illustrations by J.F. Horrabin.
250			_aForth ed.
260			_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton & Company, _c1968.
300			_a648 p. : _bill., tables, graphics ; _c22 cm.
500			_aWith hardcover
504			_aIndex: pp. 639-648
505	0		_aCont.: Cont.: Mathematics in remote antiquity -- The grammar of size, order, and shape -- Euclid as a springboard -- Number lore in antiquity -- The rise and decline of the Alexandrian culture -- The dawn of nothing -- Mathematics for the mariner -- The geometry of motion -- Logarithms and the search for series -- The calculus of Newton and Leibnitz -- The algebra of the chessboard -- The algebra of choice and change.First published in 1937 and reprinted several times since, Hogben's book took everybody's worst subject and explained it in a way that made it comprehensible to the average person.
650	1	4	_aMathematics _xHistory _vPopular works
700	1		_aHorrabin, J. F _4ill.
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