The Book of Numbers - Couverture souple

Conway, John H. H.; Guy, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1461284880 ISBN 13 : 9781461284888

Editeur : Copernicus, 2011

Synopsis

John Horton Conway is a world famous professor of mathematics at Princeton University, and inventor of The Game of Life. Previous books include On Numbers and Games, and Sphere Packing, Lattices and Groups. Richard K. Guy is professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Calgary, with more than 200 publications and 10 books to his credit. Potential readers include the audience for The Mathematical Tourist (Ivars Petersen, Freeman); A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (Paulos); A Tour of Calculus (Berlinsky); and Longitude (Sobel).

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

. . . 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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Copernicus
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1461284880
• ISBN 13: 9781461284888
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 324
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