Numbers: Their Tales, Types, and Treasures

Numbers: Their Tales, Types, and Treasures

Did you grow up thinking math is boring? It’s time to reconsider. This book will teach you everything you ever wondered about numbers—and more.<br /><br />How and why did human beings first start using numbers at the dawn of history? Would numbers exist if we <i>Homo sapiens</i> weren’t around to discover them? What’s so special about weird numbers like pi and the Fibonacci sequence? What about rational, irrational, real, and imaginary numbers? Why do we need them?<br /><br />Two veteran math educators explain it all in ways even the most math phobic will find appealing and understandable. <br /><br />You’ll never look at those squiggles on your calculator the same again.<br /><br /><br /><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>