Demystifying the key ideas of the world's greatest philosophers, & exploring all of the most important branches of thought including
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Think of a number between one & ten.
No, hang on, lets make this interesting. Between zero & infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from
- an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions & infinity suddenly gets an awful lot bigger (is that even possible?) & 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 & beautiful. Among its inhabitants are some really notable characters
- pi, e, the "imaginary" number i & 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 isnt it?
How Numbers Work takes a tour of this mind-blowing but beautiful realm of numbers & the mathematical rules that connect them.
Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781473686441
• Format: Paperback
• Author: New Scientist
• Publisher: John Murray
• Pages: 212
• Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.5 x 1.5cm