Really big numbers / Richard Evan Scwartz.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Providence, Rhode Island : AMS, American Mathematical Society, [2014]Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781470414252 (acid-free paper)
  • 1470414252 (acid-free paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JUV QA 141.15 .S39 2014
Summary: The book begins with small, easily observable numbers before building up to truly gigantic ones, like a nonillion, a tredecillion, a googol, and even ones too huge for names! Any person, regardless of age, can benefit from reading this book. Readers will find themselves returning to its pages for a very long time, perpetually learning from and growing with the narrative as their knowledge deepens. Really Big Numbers is a wonderful enrichment for any math education program and is enthusiastically recommended to every teacher, parent and grandparent, student, child, or other individual interested in exploring the vast universe of numbers.
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Juvenile Book Storms Research Center Juvenile Collection JUV QA 141.15 .S39 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 98648897

The book begins with small, easily observable numbers before building up to truly gigantic ones, like a nonillion, a tredecillion, a googol, and even ones too huge for names! Any person, regardless of age, can benefit from reading this book. Readers will find themselves returning to its pages for a very long time, perpetually learning from and growing with the narrative as their knowledge deepens. Really Big Numbers is a wonderful enrichment for any math education program and is enthusiastically recommended to every teacher, parent and grandparent, student, child, or other individual interested in exploring the vast universe of numbers.

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