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First North American Edition , July 2013. Originally published in Great Britain by Hachette Book Group Inc
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Calculus, Pi, chess, googol, Social aspects, Mathematics, Popular works, Mathematicians, biography, Asperger Syndrome, Savant-Syndrom, Unterhaltungsmathematik, Mathematik, Populärwissenschaftliche DarstellungShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Thinking in Numbers
July 2013, Little, Brown Company, Little, Brown and Company
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Table of Contents
Preface / ix
One / Family Values / 3
Two / Eternity in an Hour / 11
Three / Counting to Four in Icelandic / 21
Four / Proverbs and Time Tables / 33
Five / Classroom Intuitions /44
Six / Shakespeare's Zero / 55
Seven / Shapes of Speech / 63
Eight / On Big Numbers / 74
Nine / Snowman / 85
Ten / Invisible Cities / 94
Eleven / Are We Alone? / 105
Twelve / The Calendar of Omar Khayyam /117
Thirteen / Counting by Elevens / 126
Fourteen / The Admirable Number Pi / 134
Fifteen / Einstein's Equations / 148
Sixteen / A Novelist's Calculus / 161
Seventeen / Book of Books / 174
Eighteen / Poetry of the Primes / 183
Nineteen / All Things are Created Unequal / 195
Twenty / A Model Mother / 206
Twenty-One / Talking Chess / 219
Twenty-Two / Selves and Statistics / 232
Twenty-Three / The Cataract of Time / 247
Twenty-Four / Higher than Heaven / 255
Twenty- Five / The Art of Math / 263
Acknowledgements / 273
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An engrossing blend of Autobiography, mathematical theory, and 'what if' speculations. A fascinating even dizzying series of fresh perspectives on things we thought we knew -Billy collins
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