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. |
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... operation as absurd as the extraction of roots . And produces the irrational numbers .... It's a form of madness . Because the irrational numbers are infinite . They can't be written down . They force human consciousness out beyond the ...
... operations with them are also innate or perhaps learned extremely early . Most people use this mental number line to determine , for example , that 2 is between 1 and 3 and that 3 follows 1 and 2 , rather than needing to remember and ...
... operations may also be lost . Not only does the afflicted person cease to recognize that , say , 2 is between 1 and 3 , but also the difference between odd and even disappears . If the mental number line is still there , but somewhat ...
... operations with small ones . Even if you need to add 102 + 3 you mentally ignore the 100 in 102 while you are doing the operation . If you need to estimate 537 + 281 you may add 5 + 2 or , better , 5 + 3 and then think “ hundreds " to ...
... operation , all I need is number sense and a steady hand . But for nearly every operation with numbers greater than 10 or 12 I need to think of them as numerals - as they are written in our number system . Sometimes humans think in ...
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Genera Integral and Rational Signed Numbers | |
Genus Rational | |
Genus Real NumberLine Numbers | |
Genus Complex AllInclusive Numbers | |
Kingdom Infinity | |
A Note on Taxonomy | |