Zero to Lazy Eight: The Romance of Numbers

by Alexander Humez (Author), Alexander Humez (Author), Joseph Maguire (Author), Nicholas Humez (Author)

• Used

  Illustrated
  1994

  $6.01

  Lively and accessible, this delightful book is a friendly exploration of hundreds of colloquial expressions based on numbers and numerical expressions ( take five , behind the eight ball , etc.), the ideas that underlie them, and the roles those ideas have played--and continue to play--in the evolution of our increasingly numerate culture. Line drawings.

• New

  Illustrated
  1994

  $15.65

  Lively and accessible, this delightful book is a friendly exploration of hundreds of colloquial expressions based on numbers and numerical expressions ( take five , behind the eight ball , etc.), the ideas that underlie them, and the roles those ideas have played--and continue to play--in the evolution of our increasingly numerate culture. Line drawings.