Tammet, Daniel. creator text London Hodder & Stoughton 2012 monographic

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229 p. ; 24 cm. 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. by Daniel Tammet. "How maths illuminates our lives"--Jkt. "Radio 4 book of the week"--Jkt. Mathematics Popular works Mathematics Social aspects 9781444737448 (pbk.) 20230123122129.0