How long does it take to read A Short Account of the History of Mathematics?
W. W. Rouse Ball
A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball takes about 9 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 45 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1888. 532 pages, about 146,300 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 36 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Mathematics, History, Matematica (Historia), Geschichte, Mathématiques, Mathematik
