"To provide in simple and accessible terms the full and complete answer to all and any questions ... about the history of numbers and counting, from prehistory to the age of computers."

Oliver Sacks writes:  "A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdös was totally obsessed with his subject--he thought and wrote mathematics for nineteen hours a day until the day he died. He traveled constantly, living out of a plastic bag, and had no interest in food, sex, companionship, art--all that is usually indispensable to a human life."

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"Beautifully and devotedly made, this large thin book is a cheerful and eccentric guide to the first 156 integers and a concise summary of the next ones up to 1,000." - Philip and Phylis Morrison in Scientific American

"This delightful A4 book is a must for every school library. Beautifully illustrated in full colour, it contains an intriguing blend of 'Guiness book of records' type facts with what can best be described as starters for mathematical activity." - Sue Pope in Mathematics Teaching

This entertaining dictionary gives a description of almost every interesting number known. Revised with nearly 200 new entries, it contains all the information that anyone ever wanted to know about numbers - from minus one and its square root to cyclic, weird, perfect, untouchable and lucky numbers to Pascal's triangle and the Syracuse algorithm to numbers so large they boggle the imagination.

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Michael Drosnin, Doron Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Vitstum / Hardcover / Published 1997
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