Anatomy of Numbers: Number and Letter Principles

What is a number, really? We count, measure and calculate with numbers every day, yet rarely stop to ask where they come from or why they work. In Anatomy of Numbers, Kenyan educator Stephen Ogoro Ogwora takes the number system apart the way an anatomist studies a body: its foundations, its identity, and its close relationship with the letters we use to name and write it.

Written for learners, the book questions familiar assumptions, traces terms back to their origins and builds, topic by topic, a framework for thinking about numbers logically and philosophically.