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The Number Devil

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The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, numbers that magically appear in triangles, and numbers that expand without . As we dream with him, we are taken further and further into mathematical theory, where ideas eventually take flight, until everyone-from those who fumble over fractions to those who solve complex equations in their heads-winds up marveling at what numbers can do. Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a true polymath, the kind of superb intellectual who loves thinking and marshals all of his charm and wit to share his passions with the world. In The Number Devil , he brings together the surreal logic of Alice in Wonderland and the existential geometry of Flatland with the kind of math everyone would love, if only they [...]had a...
Request Code : ZLIB.IO17919076
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
Henry Holt and Co.
Language:
English
ISBN 10:
0805062998
ISBN 13:
9780805062991
ISBN:
9781429932424, 1429932422, 0805057706, 9780805057706, 0805062998, 9780805062991

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