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OverviewThis text originated as a lecture delivered November 20, 1984, at Queen's University, in the undergraduate colloquium series established to honour Professors A. J. Coleman and H. W. Ellis and to acknowledge their long-lasting interest in the quality of teaching undergraduate students. In another colloquium lecture, my colleague Morris Orzech, who had consulted the latest edition of the Guinness Book oj Records, reminded me very gently that the most ""innumerate"" people of the world are of a certain tribe in Mato Grosso, Brazil. They do not even have a word to express the number ""two"" or the concept of plurality. ""Yes Morris, I'm from Brazil, but my book will contain numbers different from 'one.' "" He added that the most boring 800-page book is by two Japanese mathematicians (whom I'll not name), and consists of about 16 million digits of the number 11. ""I assure you Morris, that in spite of the beauty of the apparent randomness of the decimal digits of 11, I'll be sure that my text will also include some words."" Acknowledgment. The manuscript of this book was prepared on the word processor by Linda Nuttall. I wish to express my appreciation for the great care, speed, and competence of her work. Paulo Ribenboim CONTENTS Preface vii Guiding the Reader xiii Index of Notations xv Introduction Chapter 1. How Many Prime Numbers Are There? 3 I. Euclid's Proof 3 II. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paulo RibenboimPublisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Edition: 1988 ed. Weight: 0.855kg ISBN: 9780387965734ISBN 10: 0387965734 Pages: 499 Publication Date: 14 March 1988 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsReviewsThird Edition P. Ribenboim The New Book of Prime Number Records ""A number-theoretical version of the Guinness Book of Records ... There is much mathematics to be found in these pages. These are records given here as well. This book is written with much wit. Experts may not find much that is new, but it is always worthwhile to view the history of a subject as a whole rather than a collection of isolated results.""-MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS Third Edition P. Ribenboim The New Book of Prime Number Records A number-theoretical version of the Guinness Book of Records ... There is much mathematics to be found in these pages. These are records given here as well. This book is written with much wit. Experts may not find much that is new, but it is always worthwhile to view the history of a subject as a whole rather than a collection of isolated results. -MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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