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Adam Spencer's Book of Numbers

Adam Spencer's Book of Numbers

A Bizarre and Hilarious Journey from 1 To 100

by Adam Spencer
Paperback
Publication Date: 16/02/2004

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How many people do you need in a room before there'll be a birthday in common? Why is 70 weird, and what can we do about it? How can 56 people eat 1 pizza? In 100 bite-size chapters of no more than three pages each, Adam Spencer gives each number, 1 to 100, its place in the limelight. For example, take 65. It's the constant of a 5 x 5 magic square -- a square that contains the numbers 1 to 25, where all the rows and columns and each diagonal add up to 65. Elizabeth Taylor had 65 costume changes in Cleopatra. And sharks can travel up to 65 kilometers per hour (about 40 mph). After reading Adam Spencer's Book of Numbers, readers will never look at numbers the same way again.
ISBN:
9781568582894
9781568582894
Category:
Sudoku & number puzzles
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
16-02-2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Basic Books
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
203.2x127x9.14mm
Weight:
0.16kg
Adam Spencer

Whilst studying for a PhD in Pure Mathematics at the University of Sydney, Adam won a national stand-up comedy competition and went into radio.

Over 15 years two successful breakfast gigs on the national youth radio network Triple J and the much more grown up ABC Sydney followed along with a television career on shows as diverse as The Drum (news and current affairs), The Back Page (Sports analysis), Good News Week (Comedy), Sleek geeks (Science comedy) and Australia's most watched television Poker show.

Now he returns to his original geeky passion with his Big Book of Numbers.

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