Andrew Hodges

One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers

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What Lynn Truss did for grammar in Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Andrew Hodges has done for mathematics. In One to Nine, Hodges, one of Britain's leading biographers and mathematical writers, brings numbers to three-dimensional life in this delightful and illuminating volume, filled with illustrations, which makes even the most challenging math problems accessible to the layman. Starting with the puzzle of defining unity, and ending with the recurring nines of infinite decimals, Hodges tells a story that takes in quantum physics, cosmology, climate change, and the origin of the computer. Hodges has written a classic work, at once playful but als… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-33723-5
EAN: 9780393337235
Produktnummer: 19382167
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 330 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.1 cm 249 g
Gewicht: 249

Über den Autor

Andrew Hodges is the author of Alan Turing: The Enigma, described by The New Yorker as one of the finest scientific biographies ever written. He is a lecturer at Wadham College, Oxford University.