Binding: Paperback
Description: The international best - seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration In twelve dreams Robert a boy who hates math meets a Number Devil who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers: infinite numbers prime numbers Fibonacci numbers numbers that magically appear in triangles and numbers that expand without end. As we dream with him we are taken further and further into mathematical theory where ideas eventually take flight until everyone from those who fumble over fractions to those who solve complex equations in their heads winds up marveling at what numbers can do. Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a true polymath the kind of superb intellectual who loves thinking and marshals all of his charm and wit to share his passions with the world. In The Number Devil he brings together the surreal logic of Alice in Wonderland and the existential geometry of Flatland with the kind of math everyone would love if only they had a number devil to teach them.
Title: The Number Devil A Mathematical Adventure
Author(s): Enzensberger Hans Magnus, Rotraut Susanne Berner
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9780805062991
Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/1/2000
Category: Mathematics