The book of numbers

Synopsis

In this book, John Horton Conway, creator of the famous game of Life, and one of the most original thinkers in mathematics, joins up with Richard K. Guy, whose broad understanding of the subject is often dressed up in playful expository language. Together they lead the reader on an imaginative, often astonishing tour of the landscape of numbers. The book opens up a world of topics, theories, and applications, exploring intriguing aspects of real numbers, systems, arrays and sequences, and much more.