David Darling, Agnijo Banerjee

The Biggest Number in the World

A Journey to the Edge of Mathematics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The weird and wonderful quest for unfathomably large numbers

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oneworld Publications
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 131mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9780861543052
• ISBN-10: 086154305X
• Artikelnr.: 62602219

Autorenporträt

David Darling is a science writer, astronomer and tutor. He is the author of nearly fifty books, including the bestselling Equations of Eternity. He lives in Dundee, Scotland. Together with Agnijo Banerjee, he is the co-author of the Weird Maths trilogy, and The Biggest Number in the World.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Of Sand and Stars
2 At the Limits of Reality
3 Maths Unbound
4 Up, Up and Away
5 G Whizz
6 Conway’s Chains
7 Ackermann and the Power of Recursion
8 Figure This – If You Can
9 Infinite Matters
10 Growing Fast
11 Does Not Compute!
12 The Strange World of the Googologist
13 Bridge to Beyond
14 The Biggest Number of All
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Useful websites and webpages
References