Number Story : From Counting to Cryptography
Publication year: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84800-001-8
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Numbers have fascinated people for centuries. They are familiar to everyone, forming a central pillar of our understanding of the world, yet the number system was not presented to us "gift-wrapped" but, rather, was developed over millennia. Today, despite all this development, it remains true that a child may ask a question about numbers that no one can answer. Many unsolved problems surrounding number matters appear as quirky oddities of little account while others are holding up fundamental progress in mainstream mathematics.
Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Counting, Magic, Number theory, cryptography, mathematics
