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Journey through the world of numbers with the foremost authorities and writers in the field.
John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy are two of the most accomplished, creative, and engaging number theorists any mathematically minded reader could hope to encounter. In this book, Conway and Guy lead the reader on an imaginative, often astonishing tour of the landscape of numbers.
The Book
of Numbers is just that - an engagingly written, heavily illustrated introduction to the fascinating, sometimes surprising properties of numbers and number patterns. The book opens up a world of topics, theories, and applications, exploring intriguing aspects of real numbers, systems, arrays and sequences, and much more. Readers will be able to use figures to figure out figures, rub elbows with famous families of numbers, prove the primacy of primes, fathom the fruitfulness of fractions, imagine imaginary numbers, investigate the infinite and infinitesimal and more.
John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy are two of the most accomplished, creative, and engaging number theorists any mathematically minded reader could hope to encounter. In this book, Conway and Guy lead the reader on an imaginative, often astonishing tour of the landscape of numbers.
The Book
of Numbers is just that - an engagingly written, heavily illustrated introduction to the fascinating, sometimes surprising properties of numbers and number patterns. The book opens up a world of topics, theories, and applications, exploring intriguing aspects of real numbers, systems, arrays and sequences, and much more. Readers will be able to use figures to figure out figures, rub elbows with famous families of numbers, prove the primacy of primes, fathom the fruitfulness of fractions, imagine imaginary numbers, investigate the infinite and infinitesimal and more.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
Produktdetails
Erscheinungsdatum
06. Dezember 2012
Sprache
englisch
Untertitel
Sprache: Englisch.
Dateigröße in MByte: 19.
Seitenanzahl
310
Dateigröße
19,38 MB
Autor/Autorin
John H. Conway, Richard Guy
Verlag/Hersteller
Kopierschutz
mit Wasserzeichen versehen
Produktart
EBOOK
Dateiformat
PDF
ISBN
9781461240723
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From the reviews:
" This is a really fascinating book either to read or to browse in, or for reference - there is a good index, and I can strongly recommend it - it should be in every school and college library! " The Mathematical Gazette
" A delightful look at numbers and their roles in everything from language to flowers to the imagination. " Science News
" 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. " New Scientist
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