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001 2013935728
003 DLC
005 20141204082132.0
008 130320t2013 nyu 000 0 eng d
010 $a 2013935728
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn816563510
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050 00 $aQA93$b.T36 2013
082 04 $a510$223
100 1 $aTammet, Daniel,$d1979-
245 10 $aThinking in numbers :$bon life, love, meaning, and math /$cDaniel Tammet.
250 $aFirst North American edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bLittle, Brown and Company,$c2013.
300 $axii, 271 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $aThe book that Daniel Tammet, bestselling author and mathematical savant, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes, everyday examples, and ruminations on history, literature, and more, Tammet allows us to share his unique insights and delight in the way numbers, fractions, and equations underpin all our lives. His idiosyncratic worldview gives us new perspecttives on the universal questions of what it is to be human and how we make meaning. This book will change the way you think about math and fire your imagination to see the world with fresh eyes.--$cFrom publisher description.
505 0 $aFamily values -- Eternity in an hour -- Counting to four in Icelandic -- Proverbs and times tables -- Classroom intuitions -- Shakespeare's zero -- Shapes of speech -- On big numbers -- Snowman -- Invisible cities -- Are we alone? -- The calendar of Omar Khayyam -- Counting by elevens -- The admirable number of Pi -- Einstein's equations -- A novelist's calculations -- Book of books -- Poetry of the primes -- All things are created unequal -- A model mother -- Talking chess -- Selves and statistics -- The cataract of time -- Higher than heaven -- The art of math.
650 0 $aMathematics$vPopular works.
650 0 $aMathematics$xSocial aspects.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1404/2013935728-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1404/2013935728-d.html