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    Number: To Infinity and Beyond
    Number: To Infinity and Beyond
    Number: To Infinity and Beyond
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    Number: To Infinity and Beyond

    By Oliver Linton

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    What are numbers? Where do they come from? Are there different kings of number? Why was Pythagoras fascinated by triangular and square numbers? Is there a link between perfect numbers and primes? In this enlightening illustrated pocket book, mathemagician Oliver Linton reveals the wonderful world of numbers, visiting the questions and answers of great number theorists along the way, from Euclid to Euler, Fibonacci to Fermat, and Archimedes to Gauss. No calculator needed!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWooden Books
    Release dateOct 1, 2021
    ISBN9781912706150
    Number: To Infinity and Beyond
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    Oliver Linton

    Professor Oliver Linton (Professor of Political Economy, Trinity College, Cambridge University) has been a Co-editor of Econometric Theory since 2000, the Journal of Econometrics since 2014, was Co-Editor of Econometrics Journal from 2007-14. He is an Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the British Academy. He has published over 130 articles in statistics, econometrics, and in empirical finance. He is particularly interested in nonparametric and semiparametric methods and financial econometrics.

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