A Number for Your Thoughts: Facts and Speculations About Numbers from Euclid to the Latest Computers - Couverture rigide

Lines, M. E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1138442534 ISBN 13 : 9781138442535

Editeur : CRC Press, 2018

Synopsis

Why do we count the way we do? What is a prime number or a friendly, perfect, or weird one? How many are there and who has found the largest yet known? What is the Baffling Law of Benford and can you really believe it? Do most numbers you meet in every day life really begin with a 1, 2, or 3? What is so special about 6174? Can cubes, as well as squares, be magic? What secrets lie hidden in decimals? How do we count the infinite, and is one infinity really larger than another?

These and many other fascinating questions about the familiar 1, 2, and 3 are collected in this adventure into the world of numbers. Both entertaining and informative, A Number for Your Thoughts: Facts and Speculations about Numbers from Euclid to the Latest Computers contains a collection of the most interesting facts and speculations about numbers from the time of Euclid to the most recent computer research. Requiring little or no prior knowledge of mathematics, the book takes the reader from the origins of counting to number problems that have baffled the world's greatest experts for centuries, and from the simplest notions of elementary number properties all the way to counting the infinite.

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M. E. Lines

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CRC Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138442534
• ISBN 13: 9781138442535
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible