One to Nine

The Inner Life of Numbers

Andrew Hodges (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

330 Seiten

2009
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-33723-5 (ISBN)

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“A lively new book . . . [that] readers will enjoy sprinting through.”—Jordan Ellenberg, New York Times Book Review

What Lynn Truss did for grammar in Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Andrew Hodges has done for mathematics. In One to Nine, Hodges, one of Britain’s leading biographers and mathematical writers, brings numbers to three-dimensional life in this delightful and illuminating volume, filled with illustrations, which makes even the most challenging math problems accessible to the layman. Starting with the puzzle of defining unity, and ending with the recurring nines of infinite decimals, Hodges tells a story that takes in quantum physics, cosmology, climate change, and the origin of the computer. Hodges has written a classic work, at once playful but also satisfyingly instructional, which will be ideal for the math aficionado and the Sudoku addict, as well as the life of the party.

Andrew Hodges is the author of Alan Turing: The Enigma, described by The New Yorker as “one of the finest scientific biographies ever written.” He is a lecturer at Wadham College, Oxford University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.12.2009
Zusatzinfo	40 illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 203 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Arithmetik / Zahlentheorie
ISBN-10	0-393-33723-5 / 0393337235
ISBN-13	978-0-393-33723-5 / 9780393337235
Zustand	Neuware