The Remarkable Lives of Numbers : A Mathematical Compendium from 1 to 200 by Derrick Niederman

Did you know there are 17 possible types of symmetric wallpaper pattern? Do you know what `casting out the nines' is? Or why 88 is the fourth `untouchable' number? Or how 7 is used to test for the onset of dementia. Number fanatic Derrick Niederman has a mission to bring numbers to life. He explores the unique properties of the most exciting numbers from 1 to 200, wherever they may crop up: from mathematics to sport, from history to the natural world, from language to pop culture. Packed with illustrations, amusing facts, puzzles, brainteasers and anecdotes, this is an enthralling and thought-provoking numerical voyage through the history of mathematics, investigating problems of logic, geometry and arithmetic along the way.
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