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The book of numbers

John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy

Copernicus, c1996

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

"...the great feature of the book is that anyone can read it without excessive head scratching...You'll find plenty here to keep you occupied, amused, and informed. Buy, dip in, wallow." -IAN STEWART, NEW SCIENTIST "...a delightful look at numbers and their roles in everything from language to flowers to the imagination." -SCIENCE NEWS "...a fun and fascinating tour of numerical topics and concepts. It will have readers contemplating ideas they might never have thought were understandable or even possible." -WISCONSIN BOOKWATCH "This popularization of number theory looks like another classic." -LIBRARY JOURNAL

Table of Contents

1. The Romance of Numbers 2. Figures from Figures Doing Arithmetic and Algebra by Geometry 3. What Comes Next? 4. Famous Families of Numbers 5. The Primacy of Primes 6. Further Fruitfulness of Fractions 7. Geometric Problems and Algebraic Numbers 8. Imagining Imaginary Numbers 9. Some Transcendental Numbers 10. Infinite and Infinitesimal Numbers

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Details

  • NCID
    BA28817983
  • ISBN
    • 038797993X
  • LCCN
    95032588
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    ix, 310 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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