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One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers

Andrew Hodges

Have you ever thought about the uniqueness and simplicity of One? Is Four really so square and why are there Seven days of the week Seven deadly sins indeed Seven wonders of the world? This book takes a hands-on approach to such various topics as musical harmony the probabilities in poker code breaking and the lottery.>

  • Classification : Mathematics
  • Pub Date : SEP 6, 2007
  • Imprint : Short Books
  • Page Extent : 336
  • Binding : HB
  • ISBN : 9781904977759
  • Price : INR 899
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Andrew Hodges

Andrew Hodges is Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics at Wadham College Oxford University. His classic text of 1983 since translated into several languages created a new kind of biography with mathematics science computing war history philosophy and gay liberation woven into a single personal narrative. He is an active contributor to the mathematics of fundamental physics as a follower of Roger Penrose. See www.turing.org.uk for further material.

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