Number Story From Counting to Cryptography /
Numbers have fascinated people for centuries. They are familiar to everyone, forming a central pillar of our understanding of the world, yet the number system was not presented to us "gift-wrapped" but, rather, was developed over millennia. Today, despite all this development, it remains t...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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London :
Springer London,
2008.
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- The First Numbers
- Discovering Numbers
- Some Number Tricks
- Some Tricky Numbers
- Some Useful Numbers
- On the Trail of New Numbers
- Glimpses of Infinity
- Applications of Number: Chance
- The Complex History of the Imaginary
- From Imaginary to Complex
- The Number Line under the Microscope
- Application of Number: Codes and Public Key Cryptography
- For Connoisseurs.