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Zakhor
HistoryFigurené en 1947 à Marrakech

Region: Maroc (Marrakech) puis France

History register · custodian, not owner

Born in 1947 in Marrakech (Morocco), former mathematics teacher who became a self-taught historian of numeral systems. His major work, "Universal History of Numbers" (De One to Zero / The Universal History of Numbers, 1985 and 1994), translated into numerous languages, became an international bestseller; it was both celebrated by the public and criticized by some specialists.

A book yet to be written

This Great Book has not been written yet. You can start it right here: Claude composes an original work from the archive pieces in the corpus and from web research, then enriches it with every new source contributed.

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Georges Ifrah give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

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