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The book includes some irrational numbers below 10 but concentrates on integers, and has an entry for every integer up to 42. The final entry is for Graham's number. In addition to the dictionary itself, the book includes a list of mathematicians in chronological sequence (all born before 1890), a short glossary, and a brief bibliography.
The Book of Numbers is a 1996 mathematics book by John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy. It discusses individual numbers, and types of number, that have proved conceptually significant. It discusses individual numbers, and types of number, that have proved conceptually significant.
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The name of a number 10 3n+3, where n is greater than or equal to 1000, is formed by concatenating the names of the numbers of the form 10 3m+3, where m represents each group of comma-separated digits of n, with each but the last "-illion" trimmed to "-illi-", or, in the case of m = 0, either "-nilli-" or "-nillion". [17]
Numbers: The Universal Language (French: L'empire des nombres, lit. 'The Empire of Numbers') is a 1996 illustrated monograph on numbers and their history.Written by the French historian of science Denis Guedj, and published in pocket format by Éditions Gallimard as the 300th volume in their "Découvertes" collection [1] (known as "Abrams Discoveries" in the United States, and "New Horizons ...
Dave Langford reviewed A Book of Numbers for White Dwarf #39, and stated that "So you find the legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus amid 12 pages of entries for mystical 7; under 90 is Theodore Sturgeon's famous law '90% of everything is rubbish'; the 159 entry records the 159 SF/fantasy titles hacked out in 13 years by notorious Lionel Fanthorpe; and so on.
A list of articles about numbers (not about numerals). Topics include powers of ten, notable integers, prime and cardinal numbers, and the myriad system.
The Book of Numbers is the fourth book in the Hebrew Torah and the Christian Bible. Book of Numbers may also refer to: Book of Numbers, 1973 film; Book of Numbers, 2015 novel by Joshua Cohen; A Book of Numbers, 1982 book by John Grant; The Book of Numbers (math book), 1996 math book by John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy