Number mysteries
By: Marcus Du Sautoy
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780007309863
Subjects: Mathematics; Popular works; Puzzles; Mathematical recreations
Description: From the author of 'The Music of the Primes' and 'Finding Moonshine' comes a short, lively book on five mathematical problems that just refuse to be solved - and a look at how many everyday problems can be solved by maths.
Notes: Originally published : 2010.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1.The Curious Incident of the Never-ending Primes; title: 2.The Story of the Elusive Shape; title: 3.The Secret of the Winning Streak; title: 4.The Case of the Uncrackable Code; title: 5.The Quest to Predict the Future.