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Beschreibung
John Horton Conway is a world famous professor of mathematics at Princeton University, and inventor of The Game of Life. Previous books include On Numbers and Games, and Sphere Packing, Lattices and Groups. Richard K. Guy is professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Calgary, with more than 200 publications and 10 books to his credit. Potential readers include the audience for The Mathematical Tourist (Ivars Petersen, Freeman); A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (Paulos); A Tour of Calculus (Berlinsky); and Longitude (Sobel).
John Horton Conway is a world famous professor of mathematics at Princeton University, and inventor of The Game of Life. Previous books include On Numbers and Games, and Sphere Packing, Lattices and Groups. Richard K. Guy is professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Calgary, with more than 200 publications and 10 books to his credit. Potential readers include the audience for The Mathematical Tourist (Ivars Petersen, Freeman); A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (Paulos); A Tour of Calculus (Berlinsky); and Longitude (Sobel).
Zusammenfassung
John Horton Conway is a world famous professor of mathematics at Princeton University, and inventor of The Game of Life. Previous books include On Numbers and Games, and Sphere Packing, Lattices and Groups. Richard K. Guy is professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Calgary, with more than 200 publications and 10 books to his credit. Potential readers include the audience for The Mathematical Tourist (Ivars Petersen, Freeman); A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (Paulos); A Tour of Calculus (Berlinsky); and Longitude (Sobel).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 The Romance of Numbers.- 2 Figures from Figures: Doing Arithmetic and Algebra by Geometry.- 3 What Comes Next?.- 4 Famous Families of Numbers.- 5 The Primacy of Primes.- 6 Further Fruitfulness of Fractions.- 7 Geometric Problems and Algebraic Numbers.- 8 Imagining Imaginary Numbers.- 9 Some Transcendental Numbers.- 10 Infinite and Infinitesimal Numbers.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780387979939
ISBN-10: 038797993X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Conway, John H.
Guy, Richard
Hersteller: Springer
Springer US, New York, N.Y.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH, Europaplatz 3, D-69115 Heidelberg, productsafety@springernature.com
Maße: 241 x 160 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: John H. Conway (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.03.1998
Gewicht: 0,712 kg
Artikel-ID: 106693903

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