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"It makes alive the contents of the elements of mathematics."โAlbert Einstein Taking only the most elementary knowledge for granted, Lancelot Hogben...
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The latin legacy; The reinstatement of greek; Background to the french reform; Spelling conventions as tools of diagnosis; A few hints about latin and...
An Unauthorised Autobiography
Hogben escaped from a background of religious bigotry by the academic ladder and gained a major scholarship at Cambridge and graduated in 1916. During...
In this provocative work of science writing, Lancelot Hogben explores the ways in which science has been used by those in power to control and manipul...
Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between pe...
The fascinating history of mathematics from the ancient times of Sumer through the Arabs to the geniuses of today in Hogben's riveting and readable pr...
Essays
First published in 1937, What is Ahead of Us? is a collection of essays, which were originally presented as lectures before the Fabian Society. Concei...
A Self-educator Based on the Social Background of Scientific Discovery
Or, Before Science Began
Explains what archaeology has revealed about each step of man's progression from a nomadic search for survival to the earliest beginnings of civilizat...
Traces the development of man's attempts to preserve and communicate information from prehistoric cave paintings to present day use of machines such a...
The Relationship of Probability, Credibility, and Error; an Examination of the Contemporary Crisis in Statistical Theory from a Behaviourist Viewpoint