Georges Ifrah was a teacher of mathematics, a French author and a self-taught historian of mathematics, especially numerals. Wikipedia
Born: August 29, 1947, Marrakesh, Morocco
Died: November 1, 2019 (age 72 years)
Books
The universal history of numbers
1981
The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer
2001
From one to zero
1985
Historia Universal de Las Cifras
1997
The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer
2001
Les chiffres, ou, L'historie d'une grande invention
1985