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305 pages • first pub 1978 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780821828243
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
The investigation of three problems, perfect numbers, periodic decimals, and Pythagorean numbers, has given rise to much of elementary number theory. In this book, Daniel Shanks, past editor of Mathematics of Computation, shows how each result lea...
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305 pages • first pub 1978 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780821828243
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
The investigation of three problems, perfect numbers, periodic decimals, and Pythagorean numbers, has given rise to much of elementary number theory. In this book, Daniel Shanks, past editor of Mathematics of Computation, shows how each result lea...