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The Book of Numbers

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Paperback, 310 blz. | Engels
Springer New York | 1996e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9781461284888
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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. 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

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ISBN13:9781461284888
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:310
Uitgever:Springer New York
Druk:1996

Inhoudsopgave

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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