Insights from the history of numerical notation suggest that how humans write numbers is an active choice involving cognitive and social factors. Over the past

Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2019 Shortlisted for the 2019 Cundill History Prize From the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. to the "stumbling stones"

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