false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174756345m/435580.jpg 435580 1 Just as bird guides help watchers tell birds apart by their color, songs, and behavior, The Kingdom of Infinite Number is the perfect handbook for identifying numbers in their native habitat. Taking a field guide-like approach, it offers a fresh way of looking at individual numbers and the properties that make them unique, which are also the properties essential for mental computation. The result provides new insights into mathematical patterns and relationships and an increased appreciation for the sheer wonder of numbers.Every number in this book is identified by its "field marks," "similar species," "personality," and "associations." For example, one field mark of the number 6 is that it is the first perfect number the sum of its divisors (1,2, and 3) is equal to the number itself. Thus 28, the next perfect number, is a similar species. And the fact that 6 can easily be broken into 2 and 3 is part of its personality, a trait that is helpful when large numbers are being either multiplied or divided by 6. In addition to such classifications, special attention is paid to dozens of other fascinating numbers, transfinite and other exceptionally larger numbers, and the concept of infinity.Ideal for beginners but organized to appeal to the mathematically literate, The Kingdom of Infinite Number will not only ad to readers' enjoyment of mathematics, but to their problem-solving abilities as well. 424504 15 9 2001 The Kingdom of Infinite Number: A Field Guide total:5|5:1|4:1|3:2|1:1| 5 16 13 2 3 0 false false Fri Feb 20 08:03:36 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 08:03:55 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Tue Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 10:38:38 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 16:50:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu May 28 00:58:28 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 00:58:28 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Apr 17 03:46:27 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 03:46:27 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Apr 09 22:14:23 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 22:14:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 03 14:03:17 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 14:03:17 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Feb 22 23:02:27 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 23:02:27 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jan 18 06:35:43 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 06:35:43 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 10 11:00:06 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 11:00:06 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jan 06 18:02:07 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 18:02:07 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Dec 31 12:42:37 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 12:42:37 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Oct 17 15:22:12 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 15:22:12 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Sat Mar 24 10:12:31 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 24 10:12:31 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=435580