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Edward B. Burger
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Zero to infinity

a history of numbers

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Series of twenty-four lectures by Edward Burger in which he discusses the historical evolution of the representation of numbers for communication and manipulation and the intrinsic structure of those numbers.

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Teaching Co.
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Numerals, Numeration, History

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Zero to infinity: a history of numbers
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Table of Contents

Part 1. Lecture 1. The ever-evolving notion of number
Lecture 2. The dawn of numbers
Lecture 3. Speaking the language of numbers
Lecture 4. The dramatic digits, the power of zero
Lecture 5. The magical and spiritual allure of numbers
Lecture 6. Nature's numbers, patterns without people
Lecture 7. Numbers of prime importance
Lecture 8. Challenging the rationality of numbers
Lecture 9. Walk the (number) line
Lecture 10. The commonplace chaos among real numbers
Lecture 11. A beautiful dusting of zeroes and twos
Lecture 12. An intuitive sojourn into arithmetic
Part 2. Lecture 13. The story of [pi]
Lecture 14. The story of Euler's e
Lecture 15. Transcendental numbers
Lecture 16. An algebraic approach to numbers
Lecture 17. The five most important numbers
Lecture 18. An analytic approach to numbers
Lecture 19. A new breed of numbers
Lecture 20. The notion of transfinite numbers
Lecture 21. Collections too infinite to count
Lecture 22. In and out, the road to a third infinity
Lecture 23. Infinity, what we know and what we don't
Lecture 24. The endless frontier of number.

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"Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Chantilly, Va
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Great courses, Great courses

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QA141 .B77 2007

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Pagination
2 v. :

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OL25309743M
ISBN 10
1598033778
ISBN 13
9781598033779
LCCN
2012405080
OCLC/WorldCat
257842295
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