The call of the primes : surprising patterns, peculiar puzzles, and other marvels of mathematics / Owen O'Shea.

Author: O'Shea, Owen, 1956-

Imprint:Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2016.

Description330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Note:Some words on the lo shu and other magic squares -- The call of the primes -- Some words on Pythagorean triples -- The Monty Hall problem and other deceptive puzzles in probability theory -- The Fibonacci sequence -- The Lucas sequence -- The irrational number phi -- The square root of -1 -- The square root of 2 -- The square numbers -- The triangular numbers -- The transcendental number known as pi -- The transcendental number e -- Pascal's triangle -- Some strange and remarkable coincidences -- Beautiful mathematical equations.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-314) and index.

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