Numerology: The Meaning of Numbers by Austin Coates

The ancient civilization of Egypt, the Middle East, India and China shared the belief that numbers have meanings, in addition to representing quantities.In this book Austin Coates, noted Orientalist and writer, explains his system of reading people's character and to some extent predicting their fortunes, based on their names and birth dates. His system has evolved over a period of forty years of "doing people's numbers" as a pastime, and it is based solely on personal experience, on observation of the behavior of numbers in relation to human personality.