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The Number Mysteries

Paperback • 2011 • English

The Number Mysteries

By Marcus du Sautoy

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About the book

From the author of 'The Music of the Primes' and 'Finding Moonshine' comes a short, lively book on five mathematical problems that just refuse be solved - and on how many everyday problems can be solved by maths. Every time we download a song from Itunes, take a flight across the Atlantic or talk on our mobile phones, we are relying on great mathematical inventions. Maths may fail to provide answers to various of its own problems, but it can provide answers to problems that don't seem to be its ...Show more

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ISBN

9780007309863

Publisher

Fourth Estate Ltd

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

The Number Mysteries

Format

Paperback

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