Tammet, Daniel.

Thinking in numbers / by Daniel Tammet. - London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2012. - 229 p. ; 24 cm.

"How maths illuminates our lives"--Jkt. "Radio 4 book of the week"--Jkt.

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.

9781444737448 (pbk.)


Mathematics--Popular works.
Mathematics--Social aspects.