false <![CDATA[The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171228362m/91358.jpg 91358 13 Young Robert's dreams have taken a decided turn for the weird. Instead of falling down holes and such, he's visiting a bizarre magical land of number tricks with the number devil as his host. Starting at one and adding zero and all the rest of the numbers, Robert and the number devil use giant furry calculators, piles of coconuts, and endlessly scrolling paper to introduce basic concepts of numeracy, from interesting number sequences to exponents to matrices. Author Hans Magnus Enzensberger's dry humor and sense of wonder will keep you and your kids entranced while you learn (shhh!) mathematical principles. Who could resist the little red guy who calls prime numbers "prima donnas," irrational numbers "unreasonable," and roots "rutabagas"? Not that the number devil is without his devilish qualities. He loses his temper when Robert looks for the easy way out of a number puzzle or dismisses math as boring and useless. "What do you expect?" he asks. "I'm the number devil, not Santa Claus." (Ages 10 to adult) <I>--Therese Littleton</I> 1021311 1997 The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure total:375|5:116|4:135|3:91|2:25|1:8| 375 1451 541 115 2 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 15 10:48:07 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 10:57:26 -0800 2009 This book was really good in some way because it had a story line to the ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 12:16:30 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 10:05:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Feb 11 16:05:23 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 15 10:40:48 -0700 2009 The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure was written by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. The story takes place in Robert's dreams. Every night he has dreams like sliding down in the forest or eaten by a giant fish. One night, the Number Devil appeared. The Number Devil interfers with Robert's dreams f...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Apr 01 22:00:26 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 22:10:17 -0700 2009 Edisi Indonesianya--yang diterjemahkan dari edisi Inggrisnya--tidak begitu kedengaran gaungnya, entahlah terjemahannya bagus tidak. Yang jelas sampulnya tidak semenarik edisi Inggrisnya ini. Terlalu kelam ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Sep 15 10:58:50 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 11:00:04 -0700 2009
For Readers Of All Ages

You can count on books about math, but you can't count on them becoming international bestsellers. Enter The Number Devil which charmed audiences everywhere into caring about numbers. It's the story of Robert, a 12-ye...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 21:58:11 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 15 10:54:19 -0800 2009 Once The number devil
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
270 pages
Henry Holt and Company, LLC
115 West 18th Street
New York, NY 10011
ISBN # 0-8050-5770-6

Review By:Jenisse Bouret

First and foremeost, this novel, was a really complicated one, it went deeper t...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 19 01:57:49 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 07 02:51:23 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 07 07:45:21 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 07 08:01:10 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 15 17:07:56 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 17:45:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 07:14:30 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 09:14:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 12:27:26 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 12:12:51 -0800 2009
We read 3/4 of the book but we became bored with it so we stopped reading it. The book is a little...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 07 17:35:06 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 17:35:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 23 19:21:05 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 19:27:33 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 13:17:19 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 13:22:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 18 11:06:16 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 07:36:10 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 24 07:01:04 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 18:00:53 -0700 2009 The Number Devil is a type a book which it is mandatory to read, and you a have no interest in it, and you end up falling asleep in chapter 1, which happened to me. I had to read this book for the summer, while I was enrolled into Roman Catholic High School, but I eventually changed to Con High. 201...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 13 09:47:25 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 09:51:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Dec 03 13:24:04 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 13:31:10 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 14:46:21 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 14:54:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 31 09:43:42 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 05:41:26 -0800 2009 1 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=91358