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<b>Discover the incredible connection between numbers and reality itself!</b><br><b></b></br><br>Think of a number between one and ten...</br><br>No,<wbr> hang on,<wbr> let's make this interesting. Between <i>zero</i> and <i>infinity</i>. Even if you stick to the whole numbers,<wbr> there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions and infinity suddenly gets an awful lot bigger (is that even possible?). And then there are the negative numbers,<wbr> the imaginary numbers,<wbr> the irrational numbers like pi which never end. It literally never ends.<br><br>The world of numbers is indeed strange and beautiful. Among its inhabitants are some really notable characters - pi,<wbr> e,<wbr> the square root of minus two and the famous golden ratio to name just a few. Prime numbers occupy a special status. Zero is very odd indeed. And even some apparently common-or-garden integers such as 37 have special properties. <br><br><i>How Numbers Work </i>takes a tour of this mind-blowing but beautiful world of numbers and the mathematical rules that connect them. Find out mathematicians' favourite numbers,<wbr> and the ones they are afraid of (spoiler: it isn't 13). Take a crash course in the biggest unsolved problems that keep mathematicians up at night. And learn some amazing mathematical tricks that will keep you amused for hours. <br>
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