The Book of Numbers

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

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The Book of Numbers - John H. Conway, Richard Guy
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Journey through the world of numbers with the foremost authorities and writers in the field. Readers will be able to use figures to figure out figures, rub elbows with famous families of numbers, prove the primacy of primes, fathom the fruitfulness of fractions, imagine imaginary numbers, investigate the infinite and infinitesimal and more.
Journey through the world of numbers with the foremost authorities and writers in the field.
John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy are two of the most accomplished, creative, and engaging number theorists any mathematically minded reader could hope to encounter. In this book, Conway and Guy lead the reader on an imaginative, often astonishing tour of the landscape of numbers.
The Book of Numbers is just that - an engagingly written, heavily illustrated introduction to the fascinating, sometimes surprising properties of numbers and number patterns. The book opens up a world of topics, theories, and applications, exploring intriguing aspects of real numbers, systems, arrays and sequences, and much more. Readers will be able to use figures to figure out figures, rub elbows with famous families of numbers, prove the primacy of primes, fathom the fruitfulness of fractions, imagine imaginary numbers, investigate the infinite and infinitesimal and more.

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
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Arithmetik / Zahlentheorie
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Wahrscheinlichkeit / Kombinatorik
ISBN-10 0-387-97993-X / 038797993X
ISBN-13 978-0-387-97993-9 / 9780387979939
Zustand Neuware
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