How numbers work : discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics
2022
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Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions and infinity suddenly gets an awful lot bigger (is that even possible?) And then there are the negative numbers, the imaginary numbers, the irrational numbers like pi which never end. It literally never ends. The world of numbers is indeed strange and beautiful. Among its inhabitants are some really notable characters - pi, e, the 'imaginary' number i and the famous golden ratio to name just a few. Prime numbers occupy a special status. Zero is very odd indeed: is it a number, or isn't it? This book takes a tour of this mind-blowing but beautiful realm of numbers and the mathematical rules that connect them.
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London : John Murray Learning, 2022.
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224 pages ; 20 cm.
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ISBN:
9781529382044 (pbk)
Dewey class:
510
LC class:
QA39.3
Local class:
510
Language:
English
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BRN:
3154157
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