Nice Numbers

• Main Author: Barnes, John (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2016.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algebra.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Number theory.; Number Theory.; Mathematics in Music.; Applications of Mathematics.

In this intriguing book, John Barnes takes us on a journey through aspects of numbers much as he took us on a geometrical journey in Gems of Geometry. Similarly originating from a series of lectures for adult students at Reading and Oxford University, this book touches a variety of amusing and fasci...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Measures.- Amicable numbers.- Probability.- Fractions.- Time.- Notations.- Bells.- Primes.- Music.- Finale
• Appendix.