The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers write by David Wells. This book was released on 1997-09-04. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides information on numbers and what makes particular ones noteworthy
The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers
The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers write by David Wells. This book was released on 1997-09-04. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why was the number of Hardy's taxi significant? Why does Graham's number need its own notation? How many grains of sand would fill the universe? What is the connection between the Golden Ratio and sunflowers? Why is 999 more than a distress call? All these questions and a host more are answered in this fascinating book, which has now been newly revised, with nearly 200 extra entries and some 250 additions to the original entries. From minus one and its square root, via cyclic, weird, amicable, perfect, untouchable and lucky numbers, aliquot sequences, the Cattle problem, Pascal's triangle and the Syracuse algorithm, music, magic and maps, pancakes, polyhedra and palindromes, to numbers so large that they boggle the imagination, all you ever wanted to know about numbers is here. There is even a comprehensive index for those annoying occasions when you remember the name but can't recall the number.
The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry
The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry write by David G. Wells. This book was released on 1991. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A companion volume to the author's "Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers", which focuses on arithmetic and number theory. The entries in this book cover curves, topology, tilings and all branches of plane and three-dimensional geometry, from Euclid to fractals."
Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles
Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles write by David Wells. This book was released on 2006. Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Of immense interest to those who enjoy recreational maths and puzzles . . . even the most hardened puzzler will find something new." -- Mathematical Gazette Puzzles are as old as history itself, following an arc like that of technology: centuries of slow progress, followed by rapid expansion in the 1800s, and an explosion of activity in the twentieth century. This collection by bestselling author David Wells, a Cambridge math scholar and teacher, follows that pattern. Its first part is devoted to puzzles from ancient Egypt and Babylon and subsequent sources, featuring those devised by Lewis Carroll, Eduard Lucas, Sam Loyd, and other master puzzlers of the Victorian era. The second part demonstrates the tremendous variety of twentieth-century puzzles. More than 560 puzzles are included, from the "mind sharpeners" of a medieval monk to the eighteenth-century Ladies' Diary, the Hindu Bhakshali manuscript, and riddles and popular rhymes. None requires any mathematics beyond the most elementary algebra and geometry -- and few require even that. Complete answers appear at the end.
Prime Numbers
Prime Numbers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prime Numbers write by David Wells. This book was released on 2011-01-13. Prime Numbers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating journey into the mind-bending world of prime numbers Cicadas of the genus Magicicada appear once every 7, 13, or 17 years. Is it just a coincidence that these are all prime numbers? How do twin primes differ from cousin primes, and what on earth (or in the mind of a mathematician) could be sexy about prime numbers? What did Albert Wilansky find so fascinating about his brother-in-law's phone number? Mathematicians have been asking questions about prime numbers for more than twenty-five centuries, and every answer seems to generate a new rash of questions. In Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math, you'll meet the world's most gifted mathematicians, from Pythagoras and Euclid to Fermat, Gauss, and Erd?o?s, and you'll discover a host of unique insights and inventive conjectures that have both enlarged our understanding and deepened the mystique of prime numbers. This comprehensive, A-to-Z guide covers everything you ever wanted to know--and much more that you never suspected--about prime numbers, including: * The unproven Riemann hypothesis and the power of the zeta function * The "Primes is in P" algorithm * The sieve of Eratosthenes of Cyrene * Fermat and Fibonacci numbers * The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search * And much, much more
