| Zero to Lazy Eight: The Romance of Numbers Contributor(s): Humez, Alexander (Author), Maguire, Joseph (With), Humez, Nicholas (With) |
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ISBN: 0671742817 ISBN-13: 9780671742812 Publisher: Touchstone Books OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1994 Annotation: Lively and accessible, this delightful book is a friendly exploration of hundreds of colloquial expressions based on numbers and numerical expressions ("take five", "behind the eight ball", etc.), the ideas that underlie them, and the roles those ideas have played--and continue to play--in the evolution of our increasingly "numerate" culture. Line drawings. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Number Theory - Mathematics | Reference - Reference |
| Dewey: 513.2 |
| LCCN: 93013204 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.56" W x 8.52" (0.65 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Did you ever wonder why a stitch in time saves nine and not, say, four, or why the number seven is considered the luckiest, or what number the word googol refers to? Well, the Humez brothers, along with Joseph Maguire, have answered all of these questions and more. In "Zero to Lazy Eight," they take us on a wacky and enlightening trip up the linguistic number scale from zero to thirteen and back by way of infinity, showing us just what numbers can tell us about our culture's past, present, and future. Whether it be numerical maxims, mathematical theory, or numeric etymology, there is something here for everyone. |