The New Book of Prime Number Records

by Paulo Ribenboim

Book Overview

This text originated as a lecture delivered November 20, 1984, at Queen's University, in the undergraduate colloquium senes. In another colloquium lecture, my colleague Morris Orzech, who had consulted the latest edition of the Guinness Book of Records, reminded me very gently that the most "innumerate" people of the world are of a certain trible in Mato Grosso, Brazil. They do not even have a word to express the number "two" or the concept of plurality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461268923
• ISBN13: 9781461268925
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 541 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"