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Prime Curios!

The Dictionary of Prime Number Trivia

by Chris K. Caldwell and G.L. Honaker, Jr.
Paperback
Publication Date: 04/11/2009

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This is a dictionary of prime number trivia, an eclectic collage of miscellaneous facts. A few of these tidbits have deep mathematical significance, but many are simple observations which require no mathematics. For example, in what year did England make it illegal to jail a jury for returning the "wrong" decision? What was Jenny's phone number in Tommy Tutone's hit song? What is the highest number of votes a candidate received for the U.S. Presidency while incarcerated? Other results are quasi-mathematical, such as those having to do with the shape or representation of a number. Consider the prime 18181: This number is the same forwards, backwards, and even upside down--do you know how many of these primes there are? Can a prime be small and even, and at the same time, large and odd? The heart of our book is the 235-page dictionary of 2151 curios about 1095 different primes recorded dictionary style as brief entries, with over 150 tables and figures.
ISBN:
9781448651702
9781448651702
Category:
Mathematics
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
04-11-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
BookSurge
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
316
Dimensions (mm):
216x140x17mm
Weight:
0.37kg

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