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portada Huge Numbers. A Story of Counting Ambitiously, from 4 1/2 to Fish 7
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
368
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
9x6x1 cm
ISBN13
9781541605923

Huge Numbers. A Story of Counting Ambitiously, from 4 1/2 to Fish 7

Richard Elwes (Author) · Basic Books · Hardcover

Huge Numbers. A Story of Counting Ambitiously, from 4 1/2 to Fish 7 - Richard Elwes

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Synopsis "Huge Numbers. A Story of Counting Ambitiously, from 4 1/2 to Fish 7"

How humanity’s long pursuit of ever-larger numbers broke the boundaries of mathematics and propelled us into the Information Age  

“A charming tour”—Jordan Ellenburg, author of Shape

What if, every time you wanted to write down 1,000,000, you had to draw a picture of a god? And what if that number were the biggest you had a symbol for? If you were doing math in ancient Egypt, those were the rules: anything bigger broke math.     
 
As mathematician Richard Elwes shows in Huge Numbers, this is the strange story of math. Even today, writing down some numbers is beyond us: try it with all the zeroes in a googolplex, or an outrageous alien number like TREE(3). Safer not to try: even harnessing every particle in the universe, you wouldn’t come close. But this book is no mere bestiary of numerical monsters. It shows how, by hunting down and studying ever-bigger numbers, arithmetic has reshaped human thought and made our modern era of science and computation possible.    
 
Where many math books celebrate abstract algebra or ineffable infinities, Huge Numbers is both more practical and far weirder. It reveals a world where most numbers remain out of reach until we discover how to chase them down and tame them, and so remake our world again. 
 

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