Number: The Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-Mathematician is a popular mathematics book written by Russian-American mathematician Tobias Dantzig. The original U.S. publication was by Macmillan in 1930. A second edition (third impression) was published in 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia by Melantrich Company. It recounts the history of mathematical ideas, and how they have evolved. Chapters The book is divided into 12 chapters. There is an appendix of illustrations. The third edition of the book contains a separate section for essays, at the book's end. Fingerprints The Empty Column Number Lore The Last Number Symbols The Unutterable This Flowing World The Act of Becoming Filling the Gaps The Domain of Number The Anatomy of the Infinite The Two Realities References Popular mathematics books 1932 non-fiction books