Number Story From Counting to Cryptography /

• Main Author: Higgins, Peter M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2008.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Mathematics.; Number theory.; Popular Science.; Popular Science, general.; Mathematics, general.; Number Theory.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.