Asimov On Numbers Author:Isaac Asimov In these seventeen previously out-of-print essays, Asimov supplies us with all sorts of information about numbers, from the elementary to the esoteric and surprisingly, all in a thoroughly accessible manner. — Here is Asimov at his most engaging: explaining why computers and people can't use the same numbers system; pointing out the... more » easiest way to calculate decimal places; discussing googols and T-formations, some of the biggest numbers in the world; and examinining our concept of time and why it's structured the way it is. He even manages to give us some background on the history of mathematics and its greatest geniuses.
Complete with up-to-date photographs and footnotes, it all adds up to fascinating entertainment for anyone interested in numbers. Essays collected from the Magazine of fantasy and science fiction, Sept. 1959-June 1966. Includes index.« less