The Magic Numbers of the Professor by Owen O'shea

The Magic Numbers of the Professor by Owen O'shea

A fascinating collection of numerical curiosities and wonders. The Professor in Owen O Shea s book is the imaginary American Richard Stein. As Owen O Shea and the Professor travel through Ireland, O Shea notes the Professor s collection of amazing magic numbers in fascinating detail. His mathematical curiosities are wide ranging, concerning the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania to coincidences about Apollo 11 to the first moon walk to new numerical curiosities. The new curiosities, among many others, center on Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy, the USA and Ireland, the two World Wars, the King James Version of the Bible, and James Joyce. The Magic Numbers of the Professor reveals astonishing details about the year 1776; the year of American Independence. It contains discussions on prime numbers, gives some wonderful number patterns, and reveals many other eye-opening properties of numbers. It asks, for instance, if you know in how many different ways a US dollar can be changed. The Professor gives the answer to this and other currency questions. The number of the Beast 666, is discussed as well, as are many new equations involving that famous number all appearing here for the first time. And for those fascinated by games and gambling, a number of curious proposition bets involving dice, darts, and playing cards, and various mathematical puzzles are scattered throughout this singularly entertaining book.

'Owen O'Shea, more than anyone, has the uncanny ability to find remarkable coincidences everywhere he looksHow he does it is a mystery. Some (not all!) of his astounding discoveries are packed into this entertaining mind bewildering book.' Martin Gardner
From the Number of the Beast and triangular numbers to Friedman numbers and pandigital squares, this smorgasbord of mathematical puzzles, curiosities and coincidences is sure to delight readers of all level of mathematical sophistication.' Clifford A. Pickover, author of The Möbius Strip and A Passion for Mathematics

In 1937, Underwood Dudley was born in New York City. He graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology with bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as a Ph.D. In 1965, he earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He was a professor at Ohio State University and DePauw University before retiring in 2004. He is the author of The Trisectors, Mathematical Cranks, and Numerology, an elementary number theory course, as well as the editor of two collections of mathematical essays.

He was the editor of the Collegiate Mathematics Journal, the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, and two book series published by the Mathematical Association of America. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Mathematical Association of America.

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ISBN 13	9780883855577
ISBN 10	0883855577
Title	The Magic Numbers of the Professor
Author	Owen O'shea
Series	Spectrum
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Mathematical Association of America
Year published	2007-03-08
Number of pages	220
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