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Author Clawson, Calvin C.

Title Mathematical mysteries : the beauty and magic of numbers / Calvin C. Clawson.

Imprint Reading, Mass. : Perseus Books, c1996.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  512.7 C578m    ---  Available
Description x, 313 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-308) and index.
Contents Discovery of the number sequence -- Numbers and the occult -- Sequences and series -- Family of numbers -- Story for a rich man -- Exotic connections -- Closing in on the primes -- Primes in depth -- Primes and secret codes -- The remarkable Ramanujan -- Ramanujan's equations -- Goldbach's conjecture -- Deepest mysteries -- Into the stratosphere.
Subject Number theory.
ISBN 0306454041 (alk. paper)

 
    
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