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TITLE: |
The book of numbers / John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy. |
AUTHOR: |
Conway, John Horton. |
PUBLISHED: |
New York : Copernicus, c1996. |
DESCRIPTION: |
vii, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
NOTES: |
The romance of numbers. --Figures from figures: doing arithmetic and algebra by geometry. --What comes next? --Famous families of numbers. --The primacy of primes. --Further fruitfulness of fractions. --Geometric problems and algebraic numbers. --Imagining imaginary numbers. --Some transcendental numbers. --Infinite and infinitesimal numbers. |
NOTES: |
Adult. |
SUBJECT: |
Number theory--Popular works. |
ADDED ENTRY: |
Guy, Richard K. |
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