The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure - Softcover

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

 
9780805062991: The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0805062998 ISBN 13: 9780805062991
Verlag: Holt Paperbacks, 2000

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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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Hans Magnus Enzensberger is the author of many highly lauded books, including Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia. He lives in Munich.

Rotraut Susanne Berner is an illustrator who lives in Heidelberg.

Michael Henry Heim is a prize-winning translator who teaches at UCLA.

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Verlag
Holt Paperbacks
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0805062998
ISBN 13 
9780805062991
Einband
Taschenbuch
Zeichner
Berner Rotraut Susanne
Anzahl der Seiten
262
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