TY - BOOK AU - Beck, Anatole AU - Beck, Anatole AU - Blleicher, Michael N AU - Crowe, Donald W TI - Excursions into Mathematics SN - 9788173714412 U1 - 510 BEC PY - 2000/// CY - Hyderabad PB - :University Press KW - Mathematics KW - Number theory KW - Algebra N1 - The beginnings -- Number patterns -- Prime numbers as building blocks -- Congruence arithmetic -- Irrationals and iterations -- Diophantine equations -- Number curios -- Prime numbers as leftover scrap -- Calculating prodigies and prodigious calculations -- Continued fractions -- Fibonacci numbers ER -