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Nice Numbers

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Nice Numbers

By John Barnes

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About the book

In this intriguing book, John Barnes takes us on a journey through aspects of numbers much as he took us on a geometrical journey in Gems of Geometry. Similarly originating from a series of lectures for adult students at Reading and Oxford University, this book touches a variety of amusing and fascinating topics regarding numbers and their uses both ancient and modern.The author informs and intrigues his audience with both fundamental number topics such as prime numbers and cryptography, and the...Show more

Algebra

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ISBN

9783319835976

Publisher

Birkhauser

Published year

2018

Language

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1

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Nice Numbers

Format

Paperback

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