number theory

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Be a stuntman

2014
Discover how the math you learn at school is used to plan and carry out a daring movie stunt.

Stalking the Riemann hypothesis

the quest to find the hidden law of prime numbers
2005
Chronicles mathematicians' efforts to prove the Riemann hypothesis, using examples and theories from various scholars to attempt to prove, and disprove, the occurrence of prime numbers.

Zero

2014
Zero traces how zero grew from a harmless placeholder to an idea that shook the intellectual and religious life of the European and Islamic worlds, and changed not only how humanity worked with numbers, but how we came to view the universe.

The magic numbers of the professor

2007
Discloses a variety of details about numbers like the year 1776 and discusses prime numbers and number patterns, and exposes revelatory properties of numbers. Also provides games and gambling with dice and playing cards along with mathematical puzzles.

Numberpower

in nature, art, and everyday life
1978

El misterioso jarr?n multiplicador

2004
Presents a collection of illustrations that provide picture puzzles, games, and simple activities that introduce the mathematical concepts of multiplication, factorials and the sequence an ordinal numbering.

Wonders of numbers

adventures in mathematics, mind, and meaning
2001

Wild Fibonacci

nature's secret code revealed
2010
Describes the Fibonacci sequence as it appear through a special shape called an equiangular spiral. and various other things in nature.

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