Numbers
To Infinity and Beyond
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 2024
64 pages
978-1-912706-15-0 (ISBN)
Description
What are numbers? Where do they come from? Are there different kings of number? Why was Pythagoras fascinated by triangular and square numbers? Is there a link between perfect numbers and primes? In this enlightening illustrated pocket book, mathemagician Oliver Linton reveals the wonderful world of numbers, visiting the questions and answers of great number theorists along the way, from Euclid to Euler, Fibonacci to Fermat, and Archimedes to Gauss. No calculator needed!
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Glastonbury
United Kingdom
File size
4,34 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-912706-15-0 (9781912706150)
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Person
Oliver Linton has had a life-long interest in computers and played a significant role in the development of the use of personal computers in education. Now retired from teaching, his hobbies include writing articles on many subject for his website www.jolinton.co.uk.
