The Call of the Primes: Surprising Patterns, Peculiar Puzzles, and Other Marvels of Mathematics - Softcover

O'Shea, Owen

 
9781633881488: The Call of the Primes: Surprising Patterns, Peculiar Puzzles, and Other Marvels of Mathematics
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1633881482 ISBN 13: 9781633881488
Verlag: Prometheus Books, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

This sampler of entertaining mathematical diversions reveals the elegance and extraordinary usefulness of mathematics for readers who think they have no aptitude for the subject. If you like any kind of game at all, you’ll enjoy the amazing mathematical puzzles and patterns presented here in straightforward terms that any layperson can understand. From magic squares and the mysterious qualities of prime numbers to Pythagorean triples, probability theory, the Fibonacci sequence, and more, the author shows that math can be fun while having some profound implications.

Such ubiquitous mathematical entities as pi and the Fibonacci numbers are found throughout the natural world and are also the foundation of our technological civilization. By exploring the intriguing games presented here, you’ll come away with a greater appreciation for the beauty and importance of these and many more math concepts.

This is the perfect book for people who were turned off by math in school but now as adults wonder what they may have missed.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Owen O’Shea is the author (with Underwood Dudley) of The Magic Numbers of the Professor and fifteen articles in the Journal of Recreational Mathematics. He is employed by the Irish Government’s Department of Defence.

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Verlag
Prometheus Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1633881482
ISBN 13 
9781633881488
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
330
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Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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