A Number for your Thoughts: Facts and Speculations About Numbers from Euclid to the Latest Computers
| AUTHOR | Lines M. E.; Lines M. E.; Lines M. E. et al. |
| PUBLISHER | CRC Press (01/01/1986) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
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An entertaining and informative adventure into the world of numbers, 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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ISBN-13:
9780852744956
ISBN-10:
0852744951
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
220
Carton Quantity:
40
Product Dimensions:
6.01 x 0.48 x 9.20 inches
Weight:
0.82 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
Table of Contents,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Mathematics | Number Theory
Mathematics | Algebra - Abstract
Mathematics | Number Systems
Dewey Decimal:
512.7
Library of Congress Control Number:
86183277
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An entertaining and informative adventure into the world of numbers, 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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