The biggest number in the world : a journey to the edge of mathematics / David Darling & Agnijo Banerjee.
"We all know that numbers go on forever, that you could spend your life counting and never reach the end of the line, so there can't be such a thing as a 'biggest number.' Or can there? To find out, David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee embark on an epic quest, revealing the answers...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Of sand and stars -- At the limits of reality -- Maths unbound -- Up, up and away -- G whizz -- Conway's chains -- Ackermann and the power of recursion -- Figure this, if you can -- Infinite matters -- Growing fast -- Does not compute! -- The strange world of the googologist -- Bridge to beyond -- The biggest number of all. | |
| 520 | |a "We all know that numbers go on forever, that you could spend your life counting and never reach the end of the line, so there can't be such a thing as a 'biggest number.' Or can there? To find out, David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee embark on an epic quest, revealing the answers to questions like: are there more grains of sand on Earth or stars in the universe? Is there enough paper on Earth to write out the digits of a googolplex? And what is a googolplex? Then things get serious. Enter the strange realm between the finite and the infinite, and float through a universe where the rules we cling to no longer apply. Encounter the highest number computable and infinite kinds of infinity. At every turn, a cast of wild and wonderful characters threatens the status quo with their ideas, and each time the numbers get larger."-- |c From back cover. | ||
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