Books
by David Wells
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The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers |
Can you distinguish between primes and Fibonaci numbers? What is the square root of minus one? And what is ‘e’? The answers to these questions can be found in this wonderful book that has been my companion for over 35 years. You don’t need to be a mathematician to enjoy this extraordinary dictionary which is numerically rather than alphabetically indexed. It only goes to show that you can have your π but you can’t eat it!
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 114 Autumn 2024) |
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