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LEADER: 02007cam 2200373Ia 4500
001 ocm09143284
003 OCoLC
005 20180411050715.0
008 830119s1982 nju 000 0 eng d
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100 1 $aRichards, Stephen P.
245 12 $aA number for your thoughts :$bfacts and speculations about numbers from Euclid to the latest computers /$cStephen P. Richards.
260 $aNew Providence, N.J. :$bS.P. Richards,$c℗♭1982.
300 $a207 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
505 0 $aCounting -- The search for prime numbers -- The world record holders -- The distribution of primes -- Prime races, emirps, and more -- The baffling law of Benford -- What is so special about 6174? -- Number patterns and symmetries -- Numbers perfect, friendly, and weird -- How do these series end? -- Fermat's legendary last theorem -- Shapely numbers and Mr. Waring. -- Magic squares and cubes -- How can anything so simple be so difficult? -- Nearly all numbers are insane -- Cyclic numbers and their secret -- Pi, a transcendental number -- Most numbers are normal, but it's tough to find one -- A different way of counting; geometric numbers -- Two dimensional numbers -- Counting the infinite.
650 0 $aNumber theory.
650 6 $aNume ration.
650 7 $aNumber theory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01041214
776 08 $iOnline version:$aRichards, Stephen P.$tNumber for your thoughts.$dNew Providence, N.J. : S.P. Richards, ℗♭1982$w(OCoLC)988187002
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948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN PMR - 408 OTHER HOLDINGS