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Numbers
see also Fibonacci Numbers, Irrational Numbers, Number Barbeau, E.J. Power Play: A Country Walk through the Magical World of Numbers. Providence, RI: Amer. Math. Soc., 1997. 212 p. $29.
Borwein, Jonathan and Borwein, Peter. A Dictionary of Real Numbers. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1990. 424 p. Out of print. $?. Clawson, Calvin C. The Mathematical Traveler. New York: NY: Plenum Press, 1994. $25.95.
Dantzig, T. Number: The Language of Science, 4th rev. ed. The Free Press, 1985. $16.95.
Ding, C.; Helleseth, Tor; and Niederreiter, Harald (Eds.). Sequences and Their Applications: Proceedings of SETA' 98. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1999. $84. Finch, Steven R. Mathematical Constants. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2003. $95. Guedj, Denis. Numbers: The Universal Language. 1997. $12.95. Ifrah, Georges. From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers. New York: Viking, 1987. 503 p. $?.
Phillips, Richard. Numbers: Facts, Figures and Fiction. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1994. $21.95. Reid, Constance. From Zero to Infinity, 4th ed. Washington, DC: Math. Assoc. Amer., 1992. $24.95.
Shamos, Michael Ian. A Catalog of Real Numbers. Contains 8000 interesting real numbers with accompanying formulas. In preparation?
Wells, David Graham. You Are a Mathematician: A Wise and Witty Introduction to the Joy of Numbers. New York: Wiley, 1997. 432 p. $24.95.
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