Prime Numbers, Friends Who Give Problems
A Trialogue with Papa Paulo
Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Mathematics, Number Theory, Recreations & Games
| Author: | Paulo Ribenboim | ISBN: | 9789814725835 |
| Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing Company | Publication: | October 27, 2016 |
| Imprint: | WSPC | Language: | English |
| Author: | Paulo Ribenboim |
| ISBN: | 9789814725835 |
| Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing Company |
| Publication: | October 27, 2016 |
| Imprint: | WSPC |
| Language: | English |
Prime Numbers, Friends Who Give Problems is written as a trialogue, with two persons who are interested in prime numbers asking the author, Papa Paulo, intelligent questions. Starting at a very elementary level, the book advances steadily, covering all important topics of the theory of prime numbers, up to the most famous problems. The humorous conversations and the inclusion of a back-story add to the uniqueness of the book. Concepts and results are also explained with great care, making the book accessible to a wide audience.
Contents:
- What are Prime Numbers?
- Division is Harder than Multiplication
- Another Paulo! Is a Dialogue of Three Possible?
- How Natural Numbers are Made Out of Primes
- Tell Me Which is the Largest Prime?
- Trying Hard to Find Primes
- A Formula, A Formula, Please
- Paulo Came with a Lasso
- Beautiful Old Elementary Arithmetic
- The Old Man Still Knows
- Can You Tell Me All About Congruences?
- Homework Checked
- Testing for Primality and Factorization
- Fermat Numbers are Friendly. Are They Primes?
- This World is Perfect
- Unfriendly Numbers from a Friend of Fermat's
- Paying My Debt
- Money and Primes
- Secret Messages
- New Numbers and Functions
- Princeps Gauss
- Gathering Forces
- The After "Math" of Gauss
- Primes After Dinner: Bad Dreams?
- Primes in Arithmetic Progression
- Selling Primes
- The Great Prime Mysteries
- Mysteries in Sequences: More But Not All
- The End and the Beginning
Readership: College students, high school teachers and beginners interested in number theory and important facts about prime numbers.
Key Features:
- Engaging short chapters, though written simply, are accurate and filled with substantial and up-to-date information concerning open problems
- This book is unique as it is written to pique the reader's curiosity in wanting to see proofs of theorems mentioned in the conversations throughout the book
- Although the book is not a textbook, it contains a large amount of important information and will be of interest to those who want to learn the most important facts about prime numbers
- The author is a well-known figure in number theory and his previous books were great successes
Prime Numbers, Friends Who Give Problems is written as a trialogue, with two persons who are interested in prime numbers asking the author, Papa Paulo, intelligent questions. Starting at a very elementary level, the book advances steadily, covering all important topics of the theory of prime numbers, up to the most famous problems. The humorous conversations and the inclusion of a back-story add to the uniqueness of the book. Concepts and results are also explained with great care, making the book accessible to a wide audience.
Contents:
- What are Prime Numbers?
- Division is Harder than Multiplication
- Another Paulo! Is a Dialogue of Three Possible?
- How Natural Numbers are Made Out of Primes
- Tell Me Which is the Largest Prime?
- Trying Hard to Find Primes
- A Formula, A Formula, Please
- Paulo Came with a Lasso
- Beautiful Old Elementary Arithmetic
- The Old Man Still Knows
- Can You Tell Me All About Congruences?
- Homework Checked
- Testing for Primality and Factorization
- Fermat Numbers are Friendly. Are They Primes?
- This World is Perfect
- Unfriendly Numbers from a Friend of Fermat's
- Paying My Debt
- Money and Primes
- Secret Messages
- New Numbers and Functions
- Princeps Gauss
- Gathering Forces
- The After "Math" of Gauss
- Primes After Dinner: Bad Dreams?
- Primes in Arithmetic Progression
- Selling Primes
- The Great Prime Mysteries
- Mysteries in Sequences: More But Not All
- The End and the Beginning
Readership: College students, high school teachers and beginners interested in number theory and important facts about prime numbers.
Key Features:
- Engaging short chapters, though written simply, are accurate and filled with substantial and up-to-date information concerning open problems
- This book is unique as it is written to pique the reader's curiosity in wanting to see proofs of theorems mentioned in the conversations throughout the book
- Although the book is not a textbook, it contains a large amount of important information and will be of interest to those who want to learn the most important facts about prime numbers
- The author is a well-known figure in number theory and his previous books were great successes
