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Numbers: Their Tales, Types, and Treasures

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Did you grow up thinking math is boring? It’s time to reconsider. This book will teach you everything you ever wondered about numbers—and more.

How and why did human beings first start using numbers at the dawn of history? Would numbers exist if we Homo sapiens weren’t around to discover them? What’s so special about weird numbers like pi and the Fibonacci sequence? What about rational, irrational, real, and imaginary numbers? Why do we need them?

Two veteran math educators explain it all in ways even the most math phobic will find appealing and understandable.

You’ll never look at those squiggles on your calculator the same again.

Author: Posamentier Alfred
Publisher: PROMETHEUS BOOKS
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9781633880306
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2015

Alfred S. Posamentier has published over sixty books in the area of mathematics and mathematics education, including most recently Math Makers (with Christian Spreitzer). Currently, he is Distinguished Lecturer at New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York. After having been on the faculty of the City College of the City University of New York for forty years, where he was professor of mathematics education and dean of the School of Education, he subsequently held the same positions at Mercy College, New York, for five years. He then served as executive director for internationalization and sponsored programs at Long Island University, New York.

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