From Zero to Infinity: What Makes Numbers Interesting (Spectrum Series)

Reid, Constance

ISBN 10: 0883855054 / ISBN 13: 9780883855058

Published by Mathematical Assn of Amer, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Zero to Infinity: What Makes Numbers Interesting (Spectrum Series)
• Publisher: Mathematical Assn of Amer
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0883855054
• ISBN 13: 9780883855058
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

A classic of popular mathematical literature (since 1955) that combines the mathematics and the history of number theory with descriptions of the mystique that has, on occasion, surrounded the numbers even among great mathematicians. This edition brings up to date those portions pertaining to the applications of computers to the determination of the nature of large numbers. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About the Author

Although not trained as a mathematician, Constance Reid is well known for her books on mathematicians and mathematics. Following the success of From Zero to Infinity, her first book, Reid went on to write A Long Way from Euclid, Hilbert, Courant in Gottingen and New York, Neyman, The Search for E.T. Bell, Julia--A Life in Mathematics, among others.