Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math

 Daniel Tammet

Little, Brown and Company | 2013 | 288 páginas | epub | 754 kb

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The irresistibly engaging book that "enlarges one's wonder at Tammet's mind and his all-embracing vision of the world as grounded in numbers." --Oliver Sacks, MDTHINKING IN NUMBERS is the book that Daniel Tammet, mathematical savant and bestselling author, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes, everyday examples, and ruminations on history, literature, and more, Tammet allows us to share his unique insights and delight in the way numbers, fractions, and equations underpin all our lives.
Inspired variously by the complexity of snowflakes, Anne Boleyn's eleven fingers, and his many siblings, Tammet explores questions such as why time seems to speed up as we age, whether there is such a thing as an average person, and how we can make sense of those we love. His provocative and inspiring new book will change the way you think about math and fire your imagination to view the world with fresh eyes.

Contents
Preface
Chapter One: Family Values
Chapter Two: Eternity in an Hour
Chapter Three: Counting to Four in Icelandic
Chapter Four: Proverbs and Times Tables
Chapter Five: Classroom Intuitions
Chapter Six: Shakespeare’s Zero
Chapter Seven: Shapes of Speech
Chapter Eight: On Big Numbers
Chapter Nine: Snowman
Chapter Ten: Invisible Cities
Chapter Eleven: Are We Alone?
Chapter Twelve: The Calendar of Omar Khayyám
Chapter Thirteen: Counting by Elevens
Chapter Fourteen: The Admirable Number Pi
Chapter Fifteen: Einstein’s Equations
Chapter Sixteen: A Novelist’s Calculus
Chapter Seventeen: Book of Books
Chapter Eighteen: Poetry of the Primes
Chapter Nineteen: All Things Are Created Unequal
Chapter Twenty: A Model Mother
Chapter Twenty-One: Talking Chess
Chapter Twenty-Two: Selves and Statistics
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Cataract of Time
Chapter Twenty-Four: Higher than Heaven
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Art of Math
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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