Story of numbers / Asok Kumar Mallik.
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TextSeries: IIScPress-WSPC publication ; v 3.Publication details: Singapore : World Scientific, 2018.Description: xv, 180 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN: - 9789813222922
- 513.509 23 M254
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| 513.5 If23 Universal history of numbers | 513.5 K74 Surreal numbers | 513.5 L445 Numeration | 513.509 M254 Story of numbers / | 513.52 B888 Survey of binary systems | 513.52 C712 Binary arithmetic with answers | 513.55 Ai311 Case against decimalisation |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction --
2. Integers --
3. Real numbers --
4. Imaginary and complex numbers --
5. Special numbers.
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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