The lore of large numbers /

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Large numbers have always been a source of wonder and many questions are raised about them. 'What comes after billions?' or 'How do the relative sizes of an atom and a man compare to the relative sizes of a man and the sun?' The author has answered some of these questions by expl...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Philip J., 1923-2018
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Anneli Lax new mathematical library.
Temas:
Number theory.
Théorie des nombres.
MATHEMATICS > Algebra > Intermediate.
Number theory
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • The Lore of Large Numbers
  • Copyright Page
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • PART I: LARGE NUMBERS AND THEIR ARITHMETIC
  • 1. Numbers in the World
  • 2. The Principal Uses of Numbers
  • 3. The World of Numbers
  • 4. Writing Numbers
  • 5. Powers and Exponents
  • 6. The Names of Really Large Numbers
  • 7. The Law of Exponents
  • 8. Scientific Notation
  • 9. How Large Is Large?
  • 10. Approximate Numbers and Orders of Magnitude
  • 11. Approximate Computation
  • 12. The Rough Art of Estimation
  • 13. Small Numbers
  • 14. Why Negative Exponents?
  • 15. The Large and the Small16. Division by Zero: The Road to Paradox
  • PART II: LARGE NUMBERS AT WORK
  • 17. The Long Long Trail of Ï€
  • 18. The Long Trail Continued: Computing Machines Meet Normal Numbers
  • 19. Back Over the Trail
  • 20. The Personality of Numbers
  • 21. Casting Out Nines; The Number Theory of Residues
  • 22. The Hardest of the Simple Problems
  • 23. Infinities Beyond Infinity: The Growth of Sequences
  • 24. Atomic Numbers, Astronomical Numbers, and Where Is Man?
  • Appendices
  • I. Some Selected Magnitudes in Science
  • II. Weights, Measures, and EquivalentsIII. Formulas for Measurement
  • Answers to Selected Problems
  • Bibliography

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