Georges Ifrah (1947 – 1 November 2019) was a teacher of mathematics, a French author and a self-taught historian of mathematics, especially numerals.

His work, From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers (1985, 1994) was translated into multiple languages, became an international bestseller, and was included in American Scientist's list of "100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science", referring to the 20th century.[1] Despite popular acclaim, it has been broadly criticized by scholars.[2][3]

Publications

Several books devoted to numbers and history of numbers and number related topics including:

References

  1. ^ Morrison, Philip; Morrison, Phylis (November–December 1999). "100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science". American Scientist. Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. 87 (6). Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
  2. ^ Dauben, Joseph; Georges Ifrah (January 2002). "Book Review: The Universal History of Numbers and The Universal History of Computing (part 1)" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 49 (1): 32–38. ISSN 0002-9920.
    Dauben, Joseph; Georges Ifrah (February 2002). "Book Review: The Universal History of Numbers and The Universal History of Computing (part 2)" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 49 (2): 211–216. ISSN 0002-9920.
  3. ^ C. Philipp E. Nothaft: Medieval Europe’s satanic ciphers: on the genesis of a modern myth. British Journal for the History of Mathematics 35, 2020, doi:10.1080/26375451.2020.1726050.
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