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The Book of Numbers

John H. Conway, Richard Guy (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

310 Seiten

1998 | 1st Corrected ed. 1996. Corr. 2nd printing 1998
Copernicus Books (Verlag)
978-0-387-97993-9 (ISBN)

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"...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. -IAN STEWART, NEW SCIENTIST
"...a delightful look at numbers and their roles in everything from language to flowers to the imagination."

"...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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.3.1998
Zusatzinfo	IX, 310 p.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	712 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Arithmetik / Zahlentheorie
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Wahrscheinlichkeit / Kombinatorik
ISBN-10	0-387-97993-X / 038797993X
ISBN-13	978-0-387-97993-9 / 9780387979939
Zustand	Neuware