Really big numbers / Richard Evan Scwartz.
The book begins with small, easily observable numbers before building up to truly gigantic ones, like a nonillion, a tredecillion, a googol, and even ones too huge for names! Any person, regardless of age, can benefit from reading this book. Readers will find themselves returning to its pages for a...
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Language: | English |
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Providence, Rhode Island :
AMS, American Mathematical Society,
[2014]
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Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 cm |
Format: | Book |
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The book begins with small, easily observable numbers before building up to truly gigantic ones, like a nonillion, a tredecillion, a googol, and even ones too huge for names! Any person, regardless of age, can benefit from reading this book. Readers will find themselves returning to its pages for a very long time, perpetually learning from and growing with the narrative as their knowledge deepens. Really Big Numbers is a wonderful enrichment for any math education program and is enthusiastically recommended to every teacher, parent and grandparent, student, child, or other individual interested in exploring the vast universe of numbers. |
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Call Number: | QA141.15 .S39 2014 |
ISBN: | 9781470414252 (acid-free paper) 1470414252 (acid-free paper) |