The Kingdom of Infinite Number: A Field GuideHenry Holt and Company, 15 сент. 2001 г. - Всего страниц: 398 Just as bird guides help watchers tell birds apart by their color, songs, and behavior, The Kingdom of Infinite Number is the perfect handbook for identifying numbers in their native habitat. Taking a field guide-like approach, it offers a fresh way of looking at individual numbers and the properties that make them unique, which are also the properties essential for mental computation. The result provides new insights into mathematical patterns and relationships and an increased appreciation for the sheer wonder of numbers. |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 77
... mean $15 each. Since this amounts to only 1/4 the total, and the remaining 3/4 must be paid, the answer is 3 × 15, or $45 for each payment. We both got the correct answer, but I could do all the calculations easily in my head. In fact ...
... means 5. Numeration systems strongly affect the way we compute, just as language affects the poems we write. To understand computation at all, one needs to know the basics of numeration. The history of computation begins with devices ...
... mean numbers of objects being traded . The geometric shapes were simply identifiable forms that are easily made by hand from bits of clay . A particular shape for a token could then be assigned a meaning - a cone might mean a sheep , a ...
... mean two lambs. meant a jar of oil would mean two jars of oil Because the first numbers were denominate, the line ... means 2, no matter what the object. One such early mark was a pair of parallel lines, rather like our equals sign ...
... song is called ' ? " Alice corrected herself . " No , you oughtn't : that's quite another thing ! The song is called ' Ways and Means ' : but that's only what it's called , you know ! " “ Well , what is the song , then ?
Содержание
Genera Integral and Rational Signed Numbers | |
Genus Rational | |
Genus Real NumberLine Numbers | |
Genus Complex AllInclusive Numbers | |
Kingdom Infinity | |
A Note on Taxonomy | |