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Author : David Wells
Release : 1997-09-04
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Rating : 493/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers by : David Wells
Download or read book The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers written by David Wells. This book was released on 1997-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on numbers and what makes particular ones noteworthy
Author : David G. Wells
Release : 1997
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Mathematics by : David G. Wells
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Mathematics written by David G. Wells. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of miscellaneous facts and anecdotes from mathematicians.
Author : David Wells
Release : 2006
Genre : Mathematical recreations
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Book Rating : 416/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles by : David Wells
Download or read book Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles written by David Wells. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Author : David G. Wells
Release : 1991
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Synopsis The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry by : David G. Wells
Download or read book The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry written by David G. Wells. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."
Author : David Wells
Release : 1997-09-04
Genre : Mathematics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 405/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers by : David Wells
Download or read book The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers written by David Wells. This book was released on 1997-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
