Number Nine : The Search for the Sigma Code
Language: English
Published by Prestel, Germany, Munich, 1998
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In "Nine Fixed Points in the Wind", internationally renowned structural engineer Cecil Balmond travels into a semi-mystical world to unlock a secret of numbers that has never been told. Through the eyes of Enjil, the boy mathematician, he re-examines the arithmetic of his childhood and discovers behind it a remarkable new mathematical structure that we can all appreciate -yet that will intrigue scientists and mathematicians. The worlds of Enjil and that of the reader travel in parallel. As Enjil is challenged by a spirit to solve the riddle, "What is the fixed point of the wind?", the reader is introduced to strange coincidences in the world of numbers that appear to be predescribed in myth, legend and religion across the world's history. The key seems to be the number nine. On a journey of discovery, Enjil leads us deeper into an inner world in search of the solution. It describes a form - at first linear - then circular - until finally a beautifully spiralling mandala is revealed that links all the coincidences in a single structure and opens a gateway to discoveries beyond. Cecil Balmond is a man at the top of his profession making the most flamboyant ideas of the leading avant garde architects work. His research into form provokes new possibilities in architecture. Through his profession, he has gained a remarkable perception that is uniquely attuned to understanding the structures required within buildings at the cutting edge of contemporary architecture. Recently he chanced to rethink the arithmetic we all use. The results will delight all of us who remember struggling to learn our tables by rote. It is a new theorem of hidden numbers - but it is so simple. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…
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- Title
- Number Nine : The Search for the Sigma Code
- Author
- Cecil Balmond
- Publisher
- Prestel, Germany, Munich
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3791319337
- ISBN 13
- 9783791319339
- Item weight
- 308 grams
- Dimensions
- 115 x 185
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From the Publisher
Congratulations on an intriguing and enchanting work!
Reader's comment from architect at New Haven - September 1998
Thanks so much for the wonderful book - mysterious and lucid and a great telling of this fantastic adventure.
Reader from Haifa, Israel - 13 October 1998
First of allow me to congratulate you on a most inspiring book ... and thank you... for the book you have wrote.
Reader from Germany - 27 September 1998
I was overjoyed to find Number 9, The Search for the Sigma Code in my local bookshop yesterday. I have been fascinated with the same number for many years and have built up a small dossier of events and coincides all revolving round the number 9... I have always thought 9 to be a magical number, a number of consequence and portent. Your books some way to confirming my beliefs. It was a jolt and a joy to find another believer.
Reader from Los Angeles - 17 October 1998
I really enjoyed the book's concept. What most intrigued me is the way you have interwoven the story of Enjil with the fascinating quest for magic qualities of Number 9.
Reader from New York - 9 September 1998
You are the only person who can make math's mysteries understandable to me.
Reader from Kent - 6 December 1998
This is a book that has completely altered my way of thinking. From the moment I picked up the book and started to delve into the pages, I kept searching for the number 9 in my own life and now find that I am constantly counting up digits to determine whether they add up to 9. Nine is the number of initiation and departure. When I added up the digits in my date of birth it came to number 9 and the digits in my phone number add up to number 9. Yet before reading this book I have never given it any thought. As each new page revealed even more intrigues governing the number 9, I was spell bound. The book was such a fascinating insight into the world of numbers. It gave me so much pleasure and I would like to think that it would give many more readers the same pleasure and inspiration. It has opened up a whole new world for me.
Reader from London - 8 September 1998
As a teacher I have been frustrated by the limitations of the national curriculum. I have always felt that, because of the pressures in getting pupils through examinations, there is not the time to allow them to have fun with numbers and explore the wonderful world of patterns as much as I would have liked. Now here is a book, which does exactly that. It shows the reader that numbers can be fun. They are taken on a wonderful mystery tour and by the end of the tour will have made many wonderful discoveries on the way. It shows that numbers do not have to be 'boring'. I will certainly be recommending it to my pupils. But in addition I have many friends who share my love of numbers and they too have been charmed by the book.
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