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From zero to infinity : what makes numbers interesting / Constance Reid.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wellesley, Mass. : A K Peters, 2006Edition: Fifth edition, fiftieth anniversary editionDescription: xvii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1568812736
  • 9781568812731
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 510 22
LOC classification:
  • QA93 .R42 2006
Contents:
Zero : only a place-holder until finally recognized as first of the natural numbers -- One : a number that makes mathematics different from all the other sciences -- Two : a primitive number system comes into its own with the electronic computer -- Three : first among the odd numbers divisible only by themselves and one -- Four : numbers multiplied by themselves provide beautifully difficult theorems -- Five : the pentagonal numbers turn up in the generating function of partitions -- Six : why has finding larger perfect numbers become increasingly important? -- Seven : the problem of the prime-sided regular polygons has an unexpected answer -- Eight : solving one problem about cubes leads to an even more difficult problem -- Nine : add a third line to the two lines of the equals sign - and see what happens -- Euler's number : an unnatural number answers the deepest question about natural numbers -- Aleph - zero : what set greater than the positive integers has the same number?
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Includes index.

Zero : only a place-holder until finally recognized as first of the natural numbers -- One : a number that makes mathematics different from all the other sciences -- Two : a primitive number system comes into its own with the electronic computer -- Three : first among the odd numbers divisible only by themselves and one -- Four : numbers multiplied by themselves provide beautifully difficult theorems -- Five : the pentagonal numbers turn up in the generating function of partitions -- Six : why has finding larger perfect numbers become increasingly important? -- Seven : the problem of the prime-sided regular polygons has an unexpected answer -- Eight : solving one problem about cubes leads to an even more difficult problem -- Nine : add a third line to the two lines of the equals sign - and see what happens -- Euler's number : an unnatural number answers the deepest question about natural numbers -- Aleph - zero : what set greater than the positive integers has the same number?

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