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028 _a:Donated from Mathematical Dept
082 _a510 BEC
100 _aBeck, Anatole
245 _aExcursions into Mathematics
_c/ Anatole Beck
260 _aHyderabad
_b:University Press
_c2000
300 _axxv, 499p
_c24cm.
505 _a 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.
650 _aMathematics
650 _aNumber theory.
650 _aAlgebra
700 _aBeck, Anatole
700 _aBlleicher, Michael N
700 _aCrowe, Donald W
942 _cMDL