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The story of numbers

By: Language: English Series: IIScPress-WSPC publication | / edited by Amaresh Chakrabarti; v.3Publication details: New Jersey World Scientific 2018Description: xv, 180pISBN:
  • 9789813222922
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 513.509 M296s
Contents:
This book is not a mathematics text. It discusses various kinds of numbers and curious interconnections between them. Without getting into hardcore, difficult mathematical technicalities, the book lucidly introduces all kinds of numbers that the mathematicians have created. Interesting anecdotes involving great mathematicians and their marvelous creations are included. The intention is not to add to the problem-solving ability of the reader, who is rather expected to get a glimpse of the thought process behind invention of new mathematics. Starting from natural numbers, the book discusses integers, real numbers, imaginary and complex numbers and some special numbers like quaternions, dual numbers and p-adic numbers
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Books Books PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur General Stacks 513.509 M296s Cop.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Cop.1 Available A183259
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This book is not a mathematics text. It discusses various kinds of numbers and curious interconnections between them. Without getting into hardcore, difficult mathematical technicalities, the book lucidly introduces all kinds of numbers that the mathematicians have created. Interesting anecdotes involving great mathematicians and their marvelous creations are included. The intention is not to add to the problem-solving ability of the reader, who is rather expected to get a glimpse of the thought process behind invention of new mathematics. Starting from natural numbers, the book discusses integers, real numbers, imaginary and complex numbers and some special numbers like quaternions, dual numbers and p-adic numbers

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