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Delving deeply into the mystery of prime numbers, this fascinating treatment of an ancient mathematical dilemma looks at Pythagorian mysticism, Goldbach's Conjecture, Fibonacci numbers, and Mersenne primes, among other related topics.

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9780471462347 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, May 13, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Delving deeply into the mystery of prime numbers, this fascinating treatment of an ancient mathematical dilemma looks at Pythagorian mysticism, Goldbach's Conjecture, Fibonacci numbers, and Mersenne primes, among other related topics.

Provides information on numbers and what makes particular ones noteworthy

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9780140261493 | Rev sub edition (Penguin USA, May 1, 1998), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Provides information on numbers and what makes particular ones noteworthy

Prebinding:

9781417736218, titled "Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers" | Revised edition (Turtleback Books, May 19, 1998), cover price $25.70 | About this edition: Provides information on numbers and what makes particular ones noteworthy

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Product Description: A collection of strange mathematical facts and stories. This anthology covers a whole range of ages, maths and mathematicians, and includes probability paradoxes, jumbled Shakespearean sonnets, record-breaking monkeys and typewriters, and theories of big game hunting...read more

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9780140236033 | Penguin USA, September 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of strange mathematical facts and stories.

A guide to the potential and pleasures of math explores the patterns and properties associated with numbers, reveals the origins of mathematical theories and principles, and includes more than one hundred mathematical puzzles (view table of contents)

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9780471180777 | Reprint edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, February 1, 1997), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A guide to the potential and pleasures of math explores the patterns and properties associated with numbers, reveals the origins of mathematical theories and principles, and includes more than one hundred mathematical puzzles

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Offers an introduction to the nature of mathematical thinking, intended as an equivalent of W.W. Sawyer's book 'Mathematician's Delight' published in 1943.

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9780140174809 | Gardners Books, October 26, 1995, cover price $18.30 | About this edition: Offers an introduction to the nature of mathematical thinking, intended as an equivalent of W.

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Defines and illustrates hundreds of shapes, figures, objects, theorems, patterns, and properties in the field of geometry (view table of contents)
By John Sharp (illustrator) and D. G. Wells

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9780140118131 | Penguin USA, March 1, 1992, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Defines and illustrates hundreds of shapes, figures, objects, theorems, patterns, and properties in the field of geometry

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Gathers mathematical problems involving optical illusions, geometry, crystals, structure, fractions, and logic (view table of contents)

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9780521313346 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $28.50 | About this edition: Gathers mathematical problems involving optical illusions, geometry, crystals, structure, fractions, and logic

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Product Description: Small amount of creasing and edge wear. Clean and intact. Ships very quickly and packaged carefully!

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9780486238951 | Dover Pubns, June 1, 1980, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Small amount of creasing and edge wear.

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