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by C. Stanley Ogilvy,John T. Anderson
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ISBN: 0486257789 Dover Publications Price: $8.95 |
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Challenging, accessible mathematical adventures involving prime numbers, number patterns, irrationals and iterations, calculating prodigies, and more. ". . . splendidly written, well selected and presented collection . . ." — Martin Gardner.
Table of Contents for Excursions in Number Theory
| 1 The beginnings | |||||||
| 2 Number patterns | |||||||
| 3 Prime numbers as building blocks | |||||||
| 4 Congruence arithmetic | |||||||
| 5 Irrationals and iterations | |||||||
| 6 Diophantine equations | |||||||
| 7 Number curios | |||||||
| 8 Prime numbers as leftover scrap | |||||||
| 9 Calculating prodigies and prodigious calculations | |||||||
| 10 Continued fractions | |||||||
| 11 Fibonacci numbers | |||||||
| Notes | |||||||
| Index |