Books about Numbers

0

• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
• Signifying Nothing : The Semiotics of Zero
• The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero

g (gamma) = 0.5772156º

• Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant

f (phi) = 1.6180339887º

• A Mathematical History of the Golden Number
• The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number

e = 2.718281828º

• e : The Story of a Number (Paperback)

p (pi) = 3.141592653º

• History of p
• Pi: A Source Book (2nd Ed.)
• The Joy of Pi
• p Unleashed

i = ÷-1

• An Imaginary Tale : The Story of ÷-1

General

• Number: The Language of Science
• From Zero to Infinity: What Makes Numbers Interesting
• The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers
• Numbers
• The Kingdom of Infinite Number: A Field Guide
• Numbers and Infinity: A historical account of mathematical concepts
• The Book of Numbers
• Wonders of Numbers : Adventures in Mathematics, Mind, and Meaning
• A Dictionary of Real Numbers
• Mathematical Constants

Primes

• The New Book of Prime Number Records (3rd Ed.)
• Prime Numbers and Computer Methods for Factorization (2nd Ed.)
• Prime Numbers: A Computational Perspective
• Prime Numbers and Their Distribution
• The Development of Prime Number Theory: From Euclid to Hardy and Littlewood
• Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann & the Greatest Unsolved Problem
• The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics

Goodstein

• An Outline of Set Theory

Infinity

• Keys to Infinity
• Infinity and the Mind
• Ad Infinitum ...
• To Infinity and Beyond

Websites

• What's special about this number?
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
• Numbers
• Numbers, constants and computation
• Favorite Mathematical Constants
• Inverse Symbolic Calculator When you give this program an approximation to a real number, it will do its best to decide what that number `really' is. In essence, this is a greatly expanded online version of the Dictionary of Real Numbers by Borwein & Borwein (1990).
• The Prime Pages
• Large numbers
• The Number e
• Project PEN: Problems in Elementary Number Theory
• The Secret Lives of Numbers