Author(s): David Demant

Mathematics - children

Let's introduce you to the amazing natural numbers - meet 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. You will have already met them. Without them your life would be very different. You wouldn't be able to tell the time, send a letter or use a telephone. Imagine - no computers, no TVs and no birthdays. But there was a time when they didn't exist. Natural numbers have a long and fascinating history. Whet your appetite for numbers by reading A Story of Natural Numbers, which will grip you all the way from the mysterious zero to the wonderful nine.