The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure - Couverture souple

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0805062998 ISBN 13 : 9780805062991

Editeur : Holt Paperbacks, 2000

Synopsis

The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration

In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, numbers that magically appear in triangles, and numbers that expand without end. As we dream with him, we are taken further and further into mathematical theory, where ideas eventually take flight, until everyone--from those who fumble over fractions to those who solve complex equations in their heads--winds up marveling at what numbers can do.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a true polymath, the kind of superb intellectual who loves thinking and marshals all of his charm and wit to share his passions with the world. In The Number Devil, he brings together the surreal logic of Alice in Wonderland and the existential geometry of Flatland with the kind of math everyone would love, if only they had a number devil to teach them.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Hans Magnus Enzensberger is the author of many highly lauded books, including Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia and The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure. He lives in Munich.

Rotraut Susanne Berner is an illustrator who lives in Heidelberg.

Michael Henry Heim is a prize-winning translator who teaches at UCLA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Holt Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0805062998
• ISBN 13: 9780805062991
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Berner Rotraut Susanne
• Nombre de pages: 264
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• Personne responsable: non disponible