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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London, England :
Oneworld Publications,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.