Wonders of Numbers Adventures in Mathematics Mind and Meaning 1st Edition by Clifford A Pickover ISBN 0195348001 9780195348002

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ISBN 10: 0195348001

ISBN 13: 9780195348002 

Author: Clifford A. Pickover

If we actually received messages from the stars, what would we do with them? Who were the five strangest mathematicians in history? What are the ten most interesting numbers? Who is the Number King? Jam-packed with thought-provoking mathematical mysteries, puzzles, and games—as well as the answers to all of the above questions—Wonders of Numbers will enchant even the most left-brained of readers.

Hosted by the quirky Dr. Googol—who resides on an island in Sri Lanka and occasionally collaborates with Clifford Pickover—Wonders of Numbers focuses on creativity and the delight of discovery. Here is a potpourri of common and unusual number theory problems of varying difficulty—each presented in brief chapters that convey to readers the essence of the problem rather than the extraneous, convoluted history of it. Want to know about undulating numbers? Turn to Chapter 53 and in just a few pages you’ll have a quick challenge. Interested in Fibonacci numbers? Turn to Chapter 74 for the same. Peppered throughout with illustrations that clarify many of the problems, Wonders of Numbers also includes fascinating “math gossip.” How would we use numbers to communicate with aliens? Check out Chapter 31. What are the five saddest mathematical scandals? You’ll find them in Chapter 35. Did you know that there is a Numerical Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? There is, and it’s in Chapter 46.

Indeed, each chapter in Wonders of Numbers is a paradox and a mystery. From the beautiful formula of India’s most famous mathematician to the Leviathan number so big it makes a trillion look small, Dr. Googol’s witty, disarming, and straightforward approach to numbers will entice students, educators, and scientists alike to pick up a pencil and work a problem.

Table of contents:

PART I – Fun Puzzles and Quick Thoughts

1. Attack of the Amateurs
2. Why Don’t We Use Roman Numerals Anymore?
3. In a Casino
4. The Ultimate Bible Code
5. How Much Blood?
6. Where Are the Ants?
7. Spidery Math
8. Lost in Hyperspace
9. Along Came a Spider
10. Numbers Beyond Imagination
11. Cupid’s Arrow
12. Poseidon Arrays
13. Scales of Justice
14. Mystery Squares
15. Quincunx
16. Jerusalem Overdrive
17. The Pipes of Papua
18. The Fractal Society
19. The Triangle Cycle
20. IQ-Block
21. Riffraff
22. Klingon Paths
23. Ouroboros Autophagy
24. Interview with a Number
25. The Dream-Worms of Atlantis
26. Satanic Cycles
27. Persistence
28. Hallucinogenic Highways

PART II – Quirky Questions, Lists, and Surveys
29. Why Was the First Woman Mathematician Murdered?
30. What If We Receive Messages from the Stars?
31. A Ranking of the 5 Strangest Mathematicians Who Ever Lived
32. Einstein, Ramanujan, Hawking
33. A Ranking of the 8 Most Influential Female Mathematicians
34. A Ranking of the 5 Saddest Mathematical Scandals
35. The 10 Most Important Unsolved Mathematical Problems
36. A Ranking of the 10 Most Influential Mathematicians Who Ever Lived
37. What Is Gödel’s Mathematical Proof of the Existence of God?
38. A Ranking of the 10 Most Influential Mathematicians Alive Today
39. A Ranking of the 10 Most Interesting Numbers
40. The Unabomber’s 10 Most Mathematical Technical Papers
41. The 10 Mathematical Formulas That Changed the Face of the World
42. The 10 Most Difficult-to-Understand Areas of Mathematics
43. The 10 Strangest Mathematical Titles Ever Published
44. The 15 Most Famous Transcendental Numbers
45. What Is Numerical Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
46. Who Is the Number King?
47. What 1 Question Would You Add?
48. Cube Maze

PART III – Fiendishly Difficult Digital Delights
49. Hailstone Numbers
50. The Spring of Khosrow Carpet
51. The Omega Prism
52. The Incredible Hunt for Double Smoothly Undulating Integers
53. Alien Snow: A Tour of Checkerboard Worlds
54. Beauty, Symmetry, and Pascal’s Triangle
55. Audioactive Decay
56. Dr. Googol’s Prime Plaid
57. Saippuakauppias
58. Emordnilap Numbers
59. The Dudley Triangle
60. Mozart Numbers
61. Hyperspace Prisons
62. Triangular Numbers
63. Hexagonal Cats
64. The X-Files Number
65. A Low-Calorie Treat
66. The Hunt for Elusive Squarions
67. Katydid Sequences
68. Pentagonal Pie
69. An A?
70. Humble Bits
71. Mr. Fibonacci’s Neighborhood
72. Apocalyptic Numbers
73. The Wonderful Emirp, 1,597
74. The Big Brain of Brahmagupta
75. 1,001 Scheherazades
76. 73,939,133
77. –Numbers from Los Alamos
78. Creator Numbers 2
79. Princeton Numbers
80. Parasite Numbers
81. Madonna’s Number Sequence
82. Apocalyptic Powers
83. The Leviathan Number
84. The Safford Number: 365,365,365,365,365,365
85. The Aliens from Independence Day
86. One Decillion Cheerios
87. Undulation in Monaco
88. The Latest Gossip on Narcissistic Numbers
89. The abcdefghij Problem
90. Grenade Stacking
91. The 450-Pound Problem
92. The Hunt for Primes in Pi
93. Schizophrenic Numbers
94. Perfect, Amicable, and Sublime Numbers
95. Prime Cycles and
96. Cards, Frogs, and Fractal Sequences
97. Fractal Checkers
98. Doughnut Loops
99. Everything You Wanted to Know about Triangles but Were Afraid to Ask
100. Cavern Genesis as a Self-Organizing System
101. Magic Squares, Tesseracts, and Other Oddities
102. Fabergé Eggs Synthesis
103. Beauty and Gaussian Rational Numbers
104. A Brief History of Smith Numbers
105. Alien Ice Cream
106. The Huascaran Box
107. The Intergalactic Zoo
108. The Lobsterman from Lima
109. The Incan Tablets
110. Chinchilla Overdrive
111. Peruvian Laser Battle
112. The Emerald Gambit
113. Wise Viracocha
114. Zoologic
115. Andromeda Incident
116. Yin or Yang
117. A Knotty Challenge at Tacna
118. An Incident at Chavin de Huantar
119. An Odd Symmetry
120. The Monolith at Madre de Dios
121. Amazon Dissection
122. 3 Weird Problems with 3
123. Zen Archery
124. Treadmills and Gears
125. Anchovy Marriage Test

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