One to Nine:the Inner Life of Numbers 是什么书请介绍一下这本书的大致内容,

One to Nine:the Inner Life of Numbers 是什么书请介绍一下这本书的大致内容,
One to Nine:the Inner Life of Numbers 是什么书
请介绍一下这本书的大致内容,

One to Nine:the Inner Life of Numbers 是什么书请介绍一下这本书的大致内容,
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Andrew Hodges, one of Britain"s leading biographers and mathematical writers, brings numbers to three-dimensional life in this delightful and illuminating volume, filled with illustrations, which makes even the most challenging math problems accessible to the layperson. Inspired by millennia of human attempts to figure things out, this pithy book, which tackles mathematical conundrums from the ancient Greeks to superstring theory, finds a new twist to everything from musical harmony to code breaking, from the chemistry of sunflowers to the mystery of magic squares. Starting with the puzzle of defining unity, and ending with the recurring nines of infinite decimals, Hodges tells a story that takes in quantum physics, cosmology, climate change, and the origin of the computer. Hodges has written a classic work, at once playful but satisfyingly instructional, which will be ideal for the math aficionado and the Sudoku addict as well as for the life of the party.
Review:
"A frank acknowledgment that 'anything I wrote was bound to resemble' Constance Reid's seminal From Zero to Infinity doesn't stop mathematician and biographer Hodges (Alan Turing: The Enigma) from boldly launching into his own rather disjointed explanation of the place of the numbers one through nine in mathematics and (primarily Western) culture. Pop culture references and political topics such as global warming, presumably meant to make terms like 'quantum of existence' a little less scary to the novice, appear alongside subjects of more interest to math nerds (the author debunks the common assumption that mathematicians are male, overweight and perennially single). Some knowledge of mathematical vocabulary and history is necessary to fully appreciate Hodges's merry skipping from one subject to another — a single page mentions 'Vonnegut's fiction... Plato's aesthetics, Euclid's pentagons, Fibonacci's rabbits [and] the inspiration of Islamic art and its parallels in Kepler' — but even the most halfhearted former math major will find a lot of familiar topics, like Schrdinger's cat and the equivalence of 1 with 0.99999. The result is not entirely satisfying to either numerophobes or numerophiles. 40 illus." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Book News Annotation:
In a book based on his former weekly London newspaper column on mathematical topics, Hodges (Oxford U.) explains the deeper properties of numbers (e.g. Fibonacci numbers, which got general audience attention through The Da Vinci Code), and their relationship to forecasts of climate change, music, gambling, and other topics for the mathematically intrigued. Zero is not neglected, though it's not in the title. Hodges, who also wrote Alan Turing: The Engima, includes "killer Sudoku" and other challenging puzzles for further exploration. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Synopsis:
Hodges, one of Britain's leading biographers and mathematical writers, brings numbers to three-dimensional life in this delightful and illuminating volume, which makes even the most challenging math problems accessible to the layperson. 40 illustrations.
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About the Author
Andrew Hodgesis the author of Alan Turing: The Enigma, described by The New Yorkeras 'one of the finest scientific biographies ever written.' He is a lecturer at Wadham College, Oxford University.
这就是书的简介 和作者
书名是 一到九： 数字的内在生活

一到九点:内在的生活的数字