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008 120503s2007 vaua b 000 0 eng d
010 $a 2012405080
020 $a9781598033779
020 $a1598033778
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn257842295
040 $aWDB$cWDB$dDLC
042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aQA141$b.B77 2007
100 1 $aBurger, Edward B.,$d1963-
245 10 $aZero to infinity :$ba history of numbers /$cEdward B. Burger.
260 $aChantilly, Va. :$bTeaching Co.,$cc2007.
300 $a2 v. :$bill. ;$c21 cm.
490 1 $aGreat courses
500 $a"Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aSeries of twenty-four lectures by Edward Burger in which he discusses the historical evolution of the representation of numbers for communication and manipulation and the intrinsic structure of those numbers.
505 0 $aPart 1. Lecture 1. The ever-evolving notion of number -- Lecture 2. The dawn of numbers -- Lecture 3. Speaking the language of numbers -- Lecture 4. The dramatic digits, the power of zero -- Lecture 5. The magical and spiritual allure of numbers -- Lecture 6. Nature's numbers, patterns without people -- Lecture 7. Numbers of prime importance -- Lecture 8. Challenging the rationality of numbers -- Lecture 9. Walk the (number) line -- Lecture 10. The commonplace chaos among real numbers -- Lecture 11. A beautiful dusting of zeroes and twos -- Lecture 12. An intuitive sojourn into arithmetic -- Part 2. Lecture 13. The story of [pi] -- Lecture 14. The story of Euler's e -- Lecture 15. Transcendental numbers -- Lecture 16. An algebraic approach to numbers -- Lecture 17. The five most important numbers -- Lecture 18. An analytic approach to numbers -- Lecture 19. A new breed of numbers -- Lecture 20. The notion of transfinite numbers -- Lecture 21. Collections too infinite to count -- Lecture 22. In and out, the road to a third infinity -- Lecture 23. Infinity, what we know and what we don't -- Lecture 24. The endless frontier of number.
650 0 $aNumeration$xHistory.
650 0 $aNumerals$xHistory.
710 2 $aTeaching Company.
830 0 $aGreat courses.