Huge Numbers
A Story of Counting Ambitiously
$54.60
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
20 July 2026
Summary
Imagine if the biggest number you had a symbol for was 1,000,000. In ancient Egypt, anything bigger broke maths.
Still 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). Even harnessing every particle in the universe, you wouldn’t come close. But that hasn’t stopped us from hunting down these mind-bendingly big numbers and studying them.
In Huge Numbers, mathematician …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399818827 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399818821 |
| Author: | Richard Elwes |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 20 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 156mm |
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PRAISE FOR RICHARD ELWES * - *Fascinating! A brilliantly conceived book on the history, working and going-ons of mathematics … get a copy and become the maths boffin your teacher always wished you were * Vision Magazine *Elwes takes the key concepts, perfectly illustrates them with practical examples and easy-to-follow explanations, and applies the principles to everyday situations. The effect is strangely liberating, and you might soon find yourself acquiring a love of logarithms and a respect for reflex quadrilaterals * Good Book Guide *
About The Author
Richard Elwes
Richard Elwes is a senior lecturer at the University of Leeds and a Holgate Session Leader for the London Mathematical Society. He writes for New Scientist and recently joined the crew at Numberphile, presenting episodes about the very largest numbers in modern mathematics.
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