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Thinking in numbers / by Daniel Tammet.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2012.Description: 229 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781444737448 (pbk.)
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Contents:
Family values -- Eternity in an hour -- Counting to four in Icelandic -- Proverbs and time tables -- Classroom Intuitions -- Shakespeare's zero -- Shapes of speech -- On big numbers -- Snowman -- Invisible cities -- Are we alone? -- The calendar of Omar Khayyam -- Counting by elevens -- The admirable number Pi -- Einstein's equations -- A novelists' calculus -- Book of books -- Poetry of the primes -- All things are created unequal -- A model mother -- Talking chess -- Selves and statistics -- The cataract of time -- Higher than heaven -- The art of maths.
Item type: Ordinary Loan Books
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"How maths illuminates our lives"--Jkt.

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Family values -- Eternity in an hour -- Counting to four in Icelandic -- Proverbs and time tables -- Classroom Intuitions -- Shakespeare's zero -- Shapes of speech -- On big numbers -- Snowman -- Invisible cities -- Are we alone? -- The calendar of Omar Khayyam -- Counting by elevens -- The admirable number Pi -- Einstein's equations -- A novelists' calculus -- Book of books -- Poetry of the primes -- All things are created unequal -- A model mother -- Talking chess -- Selves and statistics -- The cataract of time -- Higher than heaven -- The art of maths.

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