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The Secret Life of Numbers: 50 Easy Pieces on How

Mathematicians Work and Think

George G. Szpiro

ISBN: 0-309-65958-2, 224 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, (2006)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Szpiro, George G.

The secret life of numbers : 50 easy pieces on how mathematicians

work and think / George G. Szpiro.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-309-09658-8 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Mathematics—History.

I. Title.

QA21.S995 2006

510—dc22

2005030601

Cover design by Michele de la Menardiere

Translated by Eva Burke, London

Printed in the United States of America

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