Number for your Thoughts
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advanced number theory research
Algebraic Numbers
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Benford Distribution
Benford's law analysis
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cyclic number properties
Decimal Form
Decimal Place
Decimal Representation
Dense
electronic computers
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Euclid
Follow
Geometric Number
Hold
infinity mathematics
Larger Prime Number
Magic Cubes
Magic Squares
mathematical curiosities
Mersenne Numbers
Mersenne Primes
number issues
number properties
number theory concepts
Odd
Odd Perfect Numbers
Perfect Number
Prime
prime number distribution
Prime Twins
Rational
Rational Number System
Regular Polygon
Smallest Prime Number
speculations
Transcendental Numbers
Triangular Numbers
Product details
- ISBN 9780852744956
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1986
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
