The Book of Numbers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780387979939)

John Horton Conway is a world famous professor of mathematics at Princeton University, and inventor of The Game of Life. Previous books include On Numbers and Games, and Sphere Packing, Lattices and Groups. Richard K. Guy is professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Calgary, with more than 200 publications and 10 books to his credit. Potential readers include the audience for The Mathematical Tourist (Ivars Petersen, Freeman); A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (Paulos); A Tour of Calculus (Berlinsky); and Longitude (Sobel).

Author: John H. Conway, Richard Guy
ISBN-10: 038797993X
ISBN-13: 9780387979939
Publisher: Copernicus Books
Language: English
Published: 09/27/1996
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/1996 pg. 103