Numbers: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - Softcover

Higgins, Peter M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199584052 ISBN 13: 9780199584055

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

A crystal-clear picture of the number world, showing how the modern number system matured over many centuries, and providing an overview of all the number types that feature in modern science and mathematics

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Peter M. Higgins is Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Essex University. The author of five popular mathematics books, he is the inventor of Circular Sodoku.

Peter M. Higgins is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Essex University. He is a research algebraist but has written five popular mathematics books that bring mathematical matters to a wide audience, including Mathematics for the Curious (OUP, 1998), Nets, Puzzles, and Postmen (OUP, 2007); and Mathematics for the Imagination (OOP 2002), some of which have been translated into a variety of languages including Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic. He is the inventor of Circular Sudoku, which has appeared throughout the world in magazines, books, the internet, and on handheld computer games.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199584052
• ISBN 13: 9780199584055
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152
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