One to Nine: The Meaning of Numbers

Author(s): Andrew Hodges

Popular Science

Have you ever thought about the uniqueness and simplicity of One, or what it means to be Two? Is Four really so square and why are there Seven days of the week, Seven deadly sins, indeed Seven wonders of the world? In "One to Nine", Andrew Hodges brings numbers to life. Inspired by millennia of human attempts to figure things out, this pithy, kaleidoscopic book takes a fresh, witty and hands-on approach to such various topics as musical harmony, the probabilities in poker, code breaking and the lottery. It probes the surprising symmetries of time, space, matter and forces. It even goes to the heart of what computers can do. Interweaving all these lies the inner life of the numbers, the patterns of primes and powers, which we try to grasp, and which have us in their grip.Accessible to anyone with a general curiosity and interest in puzzles, "One to Nine" might even have you completing your fiendish Sudoku in record time... First published 2007.

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General Fields

  • : 9781904977759
  • : Short Books Ltd
  • : Short Books, London
  • : September 2007
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Andrew Hodges
  • : Hardback
  • : 513.5
  • : Mathematics; Popular science