Fractions: A Sliver of the Story
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 2024
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Oxford Univ. Press, copyright 2024. Hardcover, 8-3/4 inches tall, xi + 216 pages including exercise solutions, bibliography, and index, illustrated with figures and propositions, with dust jacket. This copy in nearly new condition. Clean, crisp, unmarked text. No signs of previous ownership. Book looks and feels new. Dust jacket also about like new, but there’s one scratch on back panel. Nice copy overall. Everything you might want to know about fractions (including some history).
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- Title
- Fractions: A Sliver of the Story
- Author
- Schumer, Prof Peter D.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- As new
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0198916531
- ISBN 13
- 9780198916536
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 1.001 pounds
- Dimensions
- 5.67 inches width by 8.74 inches height by 0.71 inches depth
The book begins by outlining the importance of rational numbers and links ancient Babylonian mathematics with modern processes for determining their decimal expansions and the period length of repeating decimals, which are worked out in full. This then leads to the study of infinite sums, especially to geometric series and the notions of convergence and divergence.
The text goes on to explain the importance of the Fibonacci numbers, as well as the Cantor set and the Sierpiński carpet. Much of elementary number theory is introduced including congruence classes, the Euler phi function, the Euclidean algorithm, and some Diophantine equations.
The book also discusses many historical applications of fractions, including Christiaan Huygens's cogwheeled planetarium and Archimedes's approximation to the value of pi, as well as an extensive study of the importance of Egyptian fractions. Finally, it outlines modern applications of fractions, such as the fair apportionment of a cake, variations on slicing a pizza, probability questions involving markings on a stick, and ways to divide a bar of gold in order to pay wages for various numbers of days.
Accessible to anyone with a passion for the history of mathematics who wishes to delve deeper into the wonderful world of fractions, this book will also be of special interest to teachers of mathematics and students of all ages.
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