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Wonders of Numbers Adventures in Mathematics, Mind, and Meaning

by: Pickover, Clifford A.

Wonders of Numbers Adventures in Mathematics, Mind, and Meaning

by: Pickover, Clifford A.

ISBN 13:
9780195133424
ISBN 10:
0195133420
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 01/04/2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Thought-provoking mathematical mysteries, puzzles, games, and number theory problems of varying degrees of difficulty jam-pack the pages of this book, peppered throughout with illustrations that clarify many of the problems. 10 halftones. 191 line illustrations.

Part I Fun Puzzles and Quick Thoughts

Attack of the Amateurs

(4)

Why Don't We Use Roman Numerals Anymore?

(5)

In a Casino

(1)

The Ultimate Bible Code

(1)

How Much Blood?

(2)

Where Are the Ants?

(1)

Spidery Math

(2)

Lost in Hyperspace

(1)

Along Came a Spider

(1)

Numbers beyond Imagination

(2)

Cupid's Arrow

(1)

Poseidon Arrays

(1)

Scales of Justice

(2)

Mystery Squares

(1)

Quincunx

(6)

Jerusalem Overdrive

(1)

The Pipes of Papua

(4)

The Fractal Society

(3)

The Triangle Cycle

(1)

IQ-Block

(2)

Riffraff

(2)

Klingon Paths

(1)

Ouroboros Autophagy

(2)

Interview with a Number

(1)

The Dream-Worms of Atlantis

(2)

Satanic Cycles

(2)

Persistence

(1)

Hallucinogenic Highways

(3)

Part II Quirky Questions, Lists, and Surveys

Why Was the First Woman Mathematician Murdered?

(2)

What If We Receive Messages from the Stars?

(3)

A Ranking of the 5 Strangest Mathematicians Who Ever Lived

(3)

Einstein, Ramanujan, Hawking

(3)

A Ranking of the 8 Most Influential Female Mathematicians

(4)

A Ranking of the 5 Saddest Mathematical Scandals

(1)

The 10 Most Important Unsolved Mathematical Problems

(4)

A Ranking of the 10 Most Influential Mathematicians Who Ever Lived

(4)

What Is Godel's Mathematical Proof of the Existence of God?

(2)

A Ranking of the 10 Most Influential Mathematicians Alive Today

(4)

A Ranking of the 10 Most Interesting Numbers

(3)

The Unabomber's 10 Most Mathematical Technical Papers

(2)

The 10 Mathematical Formulas That Changed the Face of the World

(5)

The 10 Most Difficult-to-Understand Areas of Mathematics

(3)

The 10 Strangest Mathematical Titles Ever Published

101

(2)

The 15 Most Famous Transcendental Numbers

103

(3)

What Is Numerical Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

106

(3)

Who Is the Number King?

109

(3)

What 1 Question Would You Add?

112

(1)

Cube Maze

113

(3)

Part III Fiendishly Difficult Digital Delights

Hailstone Numbers

116

(3)

The Spring of Khosrow Carpet

119

(2)

The Omega Prism

121

(2)

The Incredible Hunt for Double Smoothly Undulating Integers

123

(1)

Alien Snow: A Tour of Checkerboard Worlds

124

(6)

Beauty, Symmetry, and Pascal's Triangle

130

(4)

Audioactive Decay

134

(4)

Dr. Googol's Prime Plaid

138

(2)

Saippuakauppias

140

(2)

Emordnilap Numbers

142

(2)

The Dudley Triangle

144

(2)

Mozart Numbers

146

(1)

Hyperspace Prisons

147

(2)

Triangular Numbers

149

(3)

Hexagonal Cats

152

(4)

The X-Files Number

156

(2)

A Low-Calorie Treat

158

(3)

The Hunt for Elusive Squarions

161

(3)

Katydid Sequences

164

(1)

Pentagonal Pie

165

(2)

An A?

167

(4)

Humble Bits

171

(2)

Mr. Fibonacci's Neighborhood

173

(3)

Apocalyptic Numbers

176

(2)

The Wonderful Emirp, 1,597

178

(2)

The Big Brain of Brahmagupta

180

(2)

1,001 Scheherazades

182

(2)

73,939,133

184

(1)

⊎-Numbers from Los Alamos

185

(2)

Creator Numbers

187

(2)

Princeton Numbers

189

(4)

Parasite Numbers

193

(1)

Madonna's Number Sequence

194

(1)

Apocalyptic Powers

195

(1)

The Leviathan Number

196

(1)

The Safford Number: 365, 365, 365, 365, 365, 365

197

(1)

The Aliens from Independence Day

198

(3)

One Decillion Cheerios

201

(1)

Undulation in Monaco

202

(2)

The Latest Gossip on Narcissistic Numbers

204

(1)

The abcdefghij Problem

205

(1)

Grenade Stacking

206

(1)

The 450-Pound Problem

207

(2)

The Hunt for Primes in Pi

209

(1)

Schizophrenic Numbers

210

(2)

Perfect, Amicable, and Sublime Numbers

212

(4)

Prime Cycles and F

216

(1)

Cards, Frogs, and Fractal Sequences

217

(5)

Fractal Checkers

222

(2)

Doughnut Loops

224

(2)

Everything You Wanted to Know about Triangles but Were Afraid to Ask

226

(3)

Cavern Genesis as a Self-Organizing System

229

(4)

Magic Squares, Tesseracts, and Other Oddities

233

(6)

Faberge Eggs Synthesis

239

(4)

Beauty and Gaussian Rational Numbers

243

(4)

A Brief History of Smith Numbers

247

(1)

Alien Ice Cream

248

(4)

Part IV The Peruvian Collection

The Huascaran Box

252

(1)

The Intergalactic Zoo

253

(1)

The Lobsterman from Lima

254

(1)

The Incan Tablets

255

(2)

Chinchilla Overdrive

257

(1)

Peruvian Laser Battle

258

(1)

The Emerald Gambit

259

(1)

Wise Viracocha

260

(2)

Zoologic

262

(1)

Andromeda Incident

263

(2)

Yin or Yang

265

(1)

A Knotty Challenge at Tacna

266

(1)

An Incident at Chavin de Huantar

267

(1)

An Odd Symmetry

268

(2)

The Monolith at Madre de Dios

270

(1)

Amazon Dissection

271

(1)

3 Weird Problems with 3

272

(3)

Zen Archery

275

(1)

Treadmills and Gears

276

(2)

Anchovy Marriage Test

278

(3)

Further Exploring

281

(99)

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