Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Copernicus (1995), Edition: Corrected, 319 pages
Description
"...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
User reviews
LibraryThing member fpagan
Colorful (literally), deft, and original survey of many different kinds of pure-math numbers. (Say, have you been remembering to meditate on the Euler identity e^(i*pi)+1=0 daily?)
LibraryThing member themulhern
Lots of interesting "shape" numbers, not just square and triangular.
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1996
Physical description
319 p.; 9.21 inches
ISBN
038797993X / 9780387979939