The Book of Numbers

John H. Conway, Richard Guy (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

310 Seiten

2011 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Copernicus Books (Verlag)
978-1-4612-8488-8 (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

Zusatzinfo	IX, 310 p.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	498 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Arithmetik / Zahlentheorie
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Wahrscheinlichkeit / Kombinatorik
ISBN-10	1-4612-8488-0 / 1461284880
ISBN-13	978-1-4612-8488-8 / 9781461284888
Zustand	Neuware