Numbers are Forever - Softcover

Numbers Are Forever

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Vergilbt / ausgeblichen. About the Book: Numbers Are Forever Includes facts and curios, prime number conjectures, the sieve of Eratosthenes, the Fibonacci series, and much more besides. This title features an approach which can appeal to recreational maths enthusiasts, puzzle solvers, and mathematicians of all ages. This book is only about numbers - that is, whole numbers and nothing but the whole numbers, which start from 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 .and go on forever. Here you can meet perfect numbers, happy numbers, lucky, untouchable, weird, narcissistic, evil and deficient numbers, not to mention nice Friedmans and multi-legged repunits, as well as primes and their cousins, the sexy primes. It is also full of fascinating facts and curios, prime number conjectures, the sieve of Eratosthenes, the Fibonacci series, and much more besides. This is an accessible, clearly explained approach which will appeal to recreational maths enthusiasts, puzzle solvers, and mathematicians of all ages. About the Author: Liz Strachan Liz Strachan was a maths teacher for 36 years. Her writing career started just before she retired when, on a whim, she entered and won first prize in the European Letter Writer of the Year Competition. Since then, she has published about 200 articles and short stories and, at the Scottish Association of Writers Annual Conference, she has won 6 first prizes and numerous other awards. She is married, and has two sons and four grandchildren. Artikel-Nr. 6ea42bc1-4769-4c90-9c34-a43586149207

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