The Book of Numbers (math book)
| Author | John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Number theory |
| Publisher | Copernicus Publications |
Publication date | September 27, 1996 |
| Pages | 310 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-0-387-97993-9 |
The Book of Numbers is a 1996 mathematics book by John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy. It discusses individual numbers, and types of number, that have proved conceptually significant. Topics include the origin of the nursery rhyme "Hickory Dickory Dock", figurate numbers, the Fibonacci sequence, transcendental numbers, the Metonic cycle, combinatorics, the complex plane, nimbers, and surreal numbers.
The Basic Library List Committee of the Mathematical Association of America has recommended that it be included in undergraduate mathematics libraries.