Prime Curios!
by Chris K. Caldwell, G. L. Honaker (As told to)
ISBN-10: 1448651700
ISBN-13: 9781448651702
$17.00
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Paper
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published on
Nov 4, 2009
Edition
st Edition
Dimensions
5.51x0.66x8.50 Inches
Weight
0.81 Pounds
About the Book
This is a dictionary of prime number trivia, an eclectic collage of miscellaneous facts. A few of these tidbits have deep mathematical significance, but many are simple observations which require no mathematics.For example, in what year did England make it illegal to jail a jury for returning the "wrong" decision? What was Jenny's phone number in Tommy Tutone's hit song? What is the highest number of votes a candidate received for the U.S. Presidency while incarcerated?Other results are quasi-mathematical, such as those having to do with the shape or representation of a number. Consider the prime 18181: This number is the same forwards, backwards, and even upside down--do you know how many of these primes there are? Can a prime be small and even, and at the same time, large and odd? The heart of our book is the 235-page dictionary of 2151 curios about 1095 different primes recorded dictionary style as brief entries, with over 150 tables and figures.