A Number for your Thoughts: Facts and Speculations About Numbers from Euclid to the Latest Computers

By Malcolm E. Lines, Malcolm E Lines, M. E. Lines M E

An entertaining and informative adventure into the world of numbers, A Number for Your Thoughts: Facts and Speculations about Numbers from Euclid to the Latest Computers contains a collection of the most interesting facts and speculations about numbers from the time of Euclid to the most recent computer research. Requiring little or no prior knowledge of mathematics, the book takes the reader from the origins of counting to number problems that have baffled the world's greatest experts for centuries, and from the simplest notions of elementary number properties all the way to counting the infinite.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0852744951
• ISBN13: 9780852744956
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"