The story of numbers/ Asok Kumar Mallik, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India.

By:

Mallik, A. K (Asok Kumar), 1947

Series: IIScPress-WSPC publication ; v. 3.Publisher: Singapore; Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, [2018]Description: xv, 180 pages; 24 cmISBN:

9789813222922
9813222921

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

513.509 M254s

Contents:

Introduction -- Integers -- Real numbers -- Imaginary and complex numbers -- Special numbers.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Integers -- Real numbers -- Imaginary and complex numbers -- 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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