Thinking in Numbers
Publisher: Little, Brown Company; Little, Brown and Company
Published: July 2013
Place of publication: New York, USA; Boston, USA; London, United Kingdom
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780316187374
Copyright date: 2012
Description: First North American Edition , July 2013. Originally published in Great Britain by Hachette Book Group Inc
Table of contents: title: Preface / ix; title: One / Family Values / 3; title: Two / Eternity in an Hour / 11; title: Three / Counting to Four in Icelandic / 21; title: Four / Proverbs and Time Tables / 33; title: Five / Classroom Intuitions /44; title: Six / Shakespeare's Zero / 55; title: Seven / Shapes of Speech / 63; title: Eight / On Big Numbers / 74; title: Nine / Snowman / 85; title: Ten / Invisible Cities / 94; title: Eleven / Are We Alone? / 105; title: Twelve / The Calendar of Omar Khayyam /117; title: Thirteen / Counting by Elevens / 126; title: Fourteen / The Admirable Number Pi / 134; title: Fifteen / Einstein's Equations / 148; title: Sixteen / A Novelist's Calculus / 161; title: Seventeen / Book of Books / 174; title: Eighteen / Poetry of the Primes / 183; title: Nineteen / All Things are Created Unequal / 195; title: Twenty / A Model Mother / 206; title: Twenty-One / Talking Chess / 219; title: Twenty-Two / Selves and Statistics / 232; title: Twenty-Three / The Cataract of Time / 247; title: Twenty-Four / Higher than Heaven / 255; title: Twenty- Five / The Art of Math / 263; title: Acknowledgements / 273