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Huge Numbers: A Story Of Counting Ambitiously, From 4 1/2 To Fish 7
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How HumanityS Long Pursuit Of EverLarger Numbers Broke The Boundaries Of Mathematics And Propelled Us Into The Information AgeA Charming TourJordan Ellenburg, Author Of Shapewhat If, Every Time You Wanted To Write Down 1,000,000, You Had To Draw A Picture Of A God? And What If That Number Were The Biggest You Had A Symbol For? If You Were Doing Math In Ancient Egypt, Those Were The Rules: Anything Bigger Broke Math.As Mathematician Richard Elwes Shows In Huge Numbers, This Is The Strange Story Of Math. Even Today, Writing Down Some Numbers Is Beyond Us: Try It With All The Zeroes In A Googolplex, Or An Outrageous Alien Number Like Tree(3). Safer Not To Try: Even Harnessing Every Particle In The Universe, You WouldnT Come Close. But This Book Is No Mere Bestiary Of Numerical Monsters. It Shows How, By Hunting Down And Studying EverBigger Numbers, Arithmetic Has Reshaped Human Thought And Made Our Modern Era Of Science And Computation Possible.Where Many Math Books Celebrate Abstract Algebra Or Ineffable Infinities, Huge Numbers Is Both More Practical And Far Weirder. It Reveals A World Where Most Numbers Remain Out Of Reach Until We Discover How To Chase Them Down And Tame Them, And So Remake Our World Again.
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