The book of numbers
"The book of numbers invites you to fraternize with families of numbers, appreciate the primacy of primes, fathom the fractions, imagine imaginary numbers, and investigate the infinite ones. This is a book unlike any other. Ranging from a fascinating survey of number names, words and symbols to...
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| Auteurs principaux: | , |
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| פורמט: | Livre papier |
| שפה: | Anglais |
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[New York, N.Y.] :
Copernicus
C 1996.
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| הערה: |
Autre tirage : 1998 |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
תוכן הענינים:
- 1. The romance of numbers
- 2. Figures from figures : doing arithmetic and algebra by geometry
- 3. What comes next ?
- 4. Famous families of primes
- 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