Numbers: To Infinity and Beyond

Explore the World of Numbers

What are numbers? Where do they come from? Are there different kinds of numbers?

Why was Pythagoras fascinated by triangular and square numbers? Is there a link between perfect numbers and primes?

In this enlightening illustrated pocket book, mathemagician Oliver Linton reveals the wonderful world of numbers, visiting the questions and answers of great number theorists along the way, from Euclid to Euler, Fibonacci to Fermat, and Archimedes to Gauss.

No calculator needed!

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