Asimov On Numbers

Asimov On Numbers by Isaac Asimov. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780517371459.

Essays selected from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept. 1959-June 1966. Asimov discourses on things mathematical and numerical as only Asimov can: The Importance of Zero; The Only Two Numbers Computers Can Understand; The Asimov Series of Fractions; How to Make a Trillion Seem Small; What Infinity Really Means; The Story of Pi; Squaring the Circle; Why Imaginary Numbers are Real; Why We Should Forget Roman Numerals; The Logic of the Metric System; Why We Have Leap Years; Why a New Day Starts at Midnight; The Largest and Smallest Living Creatures; The Real Size of the Universe - in Protons; How Much Water the World Really Has; The Highest and Lowest Points of the Earth; Why the World Is Divided Into Islands.