Arithmetic

by Paul Lockhart

Book Overview

"Inspiring and informative...deserves to be widely read."
--Wall Street Journal

"This fun book offers a philosophical take on number systems and revels in the beauty of math."
--Science News

Because we have ten fingers, grouping by ten seems natural, but twelve would be better for divisibility, and eight is well suited to repeated halving. Grouping by two, as in binary code, has turned out to have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067423751X
• ISBN13: 9780674237513
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"