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" Thinking in numbers / "
by Daniel Tammet
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BL
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643663
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| Main Entry
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Tammet, Daniel,1979-
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Thinking in numbers /\ by Daniel Tammet
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229 pages ;; 24 cm
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9781444737417
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: 1444737414
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: 9781444737400
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: 1444737406
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| Notes
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"How maths illuminates our lives"--Jkt
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"Radio 4 book of the week"--Jkt
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| Contents
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Family values -- Eternity in an hour -- Counting to four in Icelandic -- Proverbs and time tables -- Classroom Intuitions -- Shakespeare's zero -- Shapes of speech -- On big numbers -- Snowman -- Invisible cities -- Are we alone? -- The calendar of Omar Khayyam -- Counting by elevens -- The admirable number Pi -- Einstein's equations -- A novelists' calculus -- Book of books -- Poetry of the primes -- All things are created unequal -- A model mother -- Talking chess -- Selves and statistics -- The cataract of time -- Higher than heaven -- The art of maths
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Mathematics, Popular works
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Mathematics-- Social aspects
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