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William Judson LeVeque
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Executive Director, American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 1977–88. Professor of Mathematics, Claremont Graduate School, California, 1970–77. Author of Topics in Number Theory and others.

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Two vertical tablets display ancient symbols for the numbers one and ten from Egyptian hieroglyphic, Egyptian hieratic, Sumerian, and Cretan scripts, with each symbol shown in red next to its culture and approximate date.
Numerals are the symbols used to represent small numbers, and numeral systems are collections of these symbols together with systems of rules for representing larger numbers. Just as the first attempts at writing came long after the development of speech, so the first efforts at the graphical…
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