1st Edition
A Number for your Thoughts Facts and Speculations About Numbers from Euclid to the Latest Computers
By Lines M E
Copyright 1986
220 Pages
by
CRC Press
220 Pages
by
CRC Press
224 Pages
by
CRC Press
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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... Read more
Counting. The search for prime numbers. The world record holders. The distribution of primes. Prime races, emirps, and more. The baffling law of Benford. What is so special about 6174? Number patterns and symmetries. Numbers perfect, friendly, and weird. How do these series end? Fermat's legendary last theorem. Shapely numbers and Mr Waring. Magic squares and cubes. How can anything so simple be so difficult? Nearly all numbers are insane. Cyclic Numbers and their secret. Pi, a transcendental number. Most numbers are normal, but it's tough to find one. A different way of counting; Geometric numbers. Two dimensional numbers. Counting the infinite. Appendices.
Biography
M. E. Lines
