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040 _aISI Library
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100 1 _aMallik, Asok Kumar,
_4author
245 1 0 _aStory of numbers /
_cAsok Kumar Mallik.
260 _aSingapore :
_bWorld Scientific,
_c2018.
300 _axv, 180 pages :
_billustrations (some color) ;
_c24 cm.
490 0 _aIIScPress-WSPC publication ;
_vv 3.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _a1. Introduction -- 2. Integers -- 3. Real numbers -- 4. Imaginary and complex numbers -- 5. Special numbers.
520 _aThis 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. --
650 0 _aNumeration
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMathematics
_xHistory
650 0 _aMathematics
_xPhilosophy.
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