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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.

Table of Contents:
1. Counting -- 2. The Search for Prime Numbers -- 3. The World Record Holders -- 4. The Distribution of Primes -- 5. Prime Races, Emirps, and More -- 6. The Baffling Law of Benford -- 7. What is so Special about 6174? -- 8. Number Patterns and Symmetries -- 9. Numbers Perfect, Friendly, and Weird -- 10. How do These Series End? -- 11. Fermat's Legendary Last Theorem -- 12. Shapely Numbers and Mr. Waring -- 13. Magic Squares and Cubes -- 14. How can Anything so Simple be so Difficult? -- 15. Nearly All Numbers are Insane -- 16. Cyclic Numbers and their Secret -- 17. Pi, a Transcendental Number -- 18. Most Numbers are Normal, but it's Tough to Find One -- 19. A Different Way of Counting; Geometric Numbers -- 20. Two Dimensional Numbers -- 21. Counting the Infinite -- 22. Update (September 1985) -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.

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M. E. Lines


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  • ISBN-13: 9781000138511
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 224
  • ISBN-10: 1000138518
  • Publisher Date: 18 Aug 2020
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Sub Title: Facts and Speculations about Numbers from Euclid to the latest Computers


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