The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
Language: English
Published by Holt Paperbacks, 2000
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- Title
- The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
- Author
- Enzensberger, Hans Magnus
- Publisher
- Holt Paperbacks
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0805062998
- ISBN 13
- 9780805062991
- Illustrator
- Berner, Rotraut Susanne
- Item weight
- 1.07 pounds
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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About the Author
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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