The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Numbers: Revised Edition (Penguin Press Science) | 
 enlarge | Author: David Wells
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 291593
Media: Paperback
Edition: Rev Sub
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0140261494
Dewey Decimal Number: 512.7
EAN: 9780140261493
Publication Date: May 1, 1998
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Googolplex good reasons why read this book! April 29, 1999
Itamar Ronen (Boston, MA USA)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
Loaded with information, light-hearted and extremely well written! The book is so enjoyable that whenever you get near it you feel like grabbing it and find the vices and virtues of yet another number. And between one number and the next, one meets an entire gallery of mathematicians, mathematical terms, unsolved problems, great achievements and colossal mistakes... It's a jewel of a book - I strongly reccomend it.
Great for Middle and High School Students June 15, 2000
Gary the blues man (Sunderland, MA USA)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
A great supplemental tool for teachers! I had terrific fun with my 6th grade math students when reading them certain passages in this book. Many of the topics covered, such as factorials, hexidecimals, triangular numbers, pi, primes, etc. are not generally covered in the middle school very well or at all, and this book serves as a great launching tool for discussions that kids enjoy and think about long after class is over. Also, many topics go in depth and will challenge even the best high school math students and take them in many directions that traditional math education does not.
Wonderful starting point to a lifetime of investigations June 6, 1998
Lynne Kelly (Melbourne, Australia)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book gives a summary of every interesting number known. A great way to find areas of maths to explore further and use as a stimulus to teaching. Check out his other Penguin Dictionaries, too - they make a great set.
a really neat book November 28, 2002
newton fisher (riverside, california United States)
2 out of 14 found this review helpful
Everyone has that smart-alex relation who ruins Thanksgiving dinner by proving to every four year old in the room that they know more about math than they do. There are several ways to deal with such a pain in the posterior but the least likely to involve violence and police intervention is this book.There are few `wonderful' books ... you can count them with the fingers of one hand ... this is one. The `smart-alex' in the family would call this book: `just a book on popular mathematics' thunder against it and not know 1/100 th of those facts within. This is understandable number theory ... I guess you could call it that. It takes a number, some whole integers and some fractional or decimal parts and tells you about them. What they are made off, how to use the number, how it was used historically ... in other words it not dry like those awful wiggly things scraggy armed Mr. Enngenheimer [whomever] bored you with in high school
Great characters, not much plot April 20, 1997
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This little book has been read and reread so many times by myself and my children that it is falling to bits. The trancendental numbers are full of intriguing wierdnesses. One intriguingly wierd number after another
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