Karl Menninger (mathematics)
- Karl Menninger (mathematics)
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 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.
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