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Summing It Up - From One Plus One to Modern Number Theory (Paperback) Loot Price: R581
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Summing It Up - From One Plus One to Modern Number Theory (Paperback): Avner Ash, Robert Gross

Summing It Up - From One Plus One to Modern Number Theory (Paperback)

Avner Ash, Robert Gross

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We use addition on a daily basis--yet how many of us stop to truly consider the enormous and remarkable ramifications of this mathematical activity? Summing It Up uses addition as a springboard to present a fascinating and accessible look at numbers and number theory, and how we apply beautiful numerical properties to answer math problems. Mathematicians Avner Ash and Robert Gross explore addition's most basic characteristics as well as the addition of squares and other powers before moving onward to infinite series, modular forms, and issues at the forefront of current mathematical research. Ash and Gross tailor their succinct and engaging investigations for math enthusiasts of all backgrounds. Employing college algebra, the first part of the book examines such questions as, can all positive numbers be written as a sum of four perfect squares? The second section of the book incorporates calculus and examines infinite series--long sums that can only be defined by the concept of limit, as in the example of 1+1/2+1/4+...=? With the help of some group theory and geometry, the third section ties together the first two parts of the book through a discussion of modular forms--the analytic functions on the upper half-plane of the complex numbers that have growth and transformation properties. Ash and Gross show how modular forms are indispensable in modern number theory, for example in the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Appropriate for numbers novices as well as college math majors, Summing It Up delves into mathematics that will enlighten anyone fascinated by numbers.

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Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2018
First published: 2016
Authors: Avner Ash • Robert Gross
Dimensions: 235 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-17851-6
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Philosophy of mathematics
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Number theory > General
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LSN: 0-691-17851-8
Barcode: 9780691178516

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