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The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration. In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, numbers that magically appear in triangles, and numbers that expand without. As we dream with him, we are taken further and further into mathematical theory, where ideas eventually take flight, until everyone - from those who fumble over fractions to those who solve complex equations in their heads - winds up marveling at what numbers can do. Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a true polymath, the kind of superb intellectual who loves thinking and marshals all of his charm and wit to share his passions with the world. In The Number Devil , he brings together the surreal logic of Alice in Wonderland and the existential geometry of Flatland with the kind of math everyone would love, if only they had a number devil to teach it to them.
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German: Robert hat das Träumen satt. Weil ihm die unheimlichsten Dinge im Traum passieren, beschließt er, es nicht mehr zu tun. Doch da hat er die Rechnung ohne den Zahlenteufel gemacht! Plötzlich ist er da, wirbelt mit seinem geheimnisvollen Stock herum und zaubert aus ihm ganze Zahlenfolgen. In zwölf Nächten erzählt er Robert von hopsenden Zahlen, wie man Rettiche zieht und daß es auch eingebildete Zahlen gibt.
Wer bei so vielen Rechenaufgaben auf die Mathematik Lust bekommt, auf den wartet zum Ende jedes Kapitels eine kleine Denkaufgabe.
Original Title:
Der Zahlenteufel. Ein Kopfkissenbuch für alle, die Angst vor der Mathematik haben
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