Zero to infinity
Subtitle: a history of numbers
By: Edward B. Burger
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: Great courses; Great courses
Publisher: Teaching Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chantilly, Va
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781598033779
Subjects: Numerals; Numeration; History
Description: Series of twenty-four lectures by Edward Burger in which he discusses the historical evolution of the representation of numbers for communication and manipulation and the intrinsic structure of those numbers.
Notes: "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Lecture 1. The ever-evolving notion of number; title: Lecture 2. The dawn of numbers; title: Lecture 3. Speaking the language of numbers; title: Lecture 4. The dramatic digits, the power of zero; title: Lecture 5. The magical and spiritual allure of numbers; title: Lecture 6. Nature's numbers, patterns without people; title: Lecture 7. Numbers of prime importance; title: Lecture 8. Challenging the rationality of numbers; title: Lecture 9. Walk the (number) line; title: Lecture 10. The commonplace chaos among real numbers; title: Lecture 11. A beautiful dusting of zeroes and twos; title: Lecture 12. An intuitive sojourn into arithmetic; title: Part 2. Lecture 13. The story of [pi]; title: Lecture 14. The story of Euler's e; title: Lecture 15. Transcendental numbers; title: Lecture 16. An algebraic approach to numbers; title: Lecture 17. The five most important numbers; title: Lecture 18. An analytic approach to numbers; title: Lecture 19. A new breed of numbers; title: Lecture 20. The notion of transfinite numbers; title: Lecture 21. Collections too infinite to count; title: Lecture 22. In and out, the road to a third infinity; title: Lecture 23. Infinity, what we know and what we don't; title: Lecture 24. The endless frontier of number.