Download or read book Man and Number written by Donald Smeltzer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of how people came to appreciate numbers traces the ways in which early humans gradually evolved methods for recording numerical data and performing simple calculations. Its profiles of ancient systems of recording numbers include Egyptian, Maya and Aztec, Chinese, Greek, and the techniques of other cultures. 1974 edition.
Download or read book The Parrot s Theorem written by Denis Guedj and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Ruche, a Parisian bookseller, receives a bequest from a long lost friend in the Amazon of a vast library of math books, which propels him into a great exploration of the story of mathematics. Meanwhile Max, whose family lives with Mr. Ruche, takes in a voluble parrot who will discuss math with anyone. When Mr. Ruche learns of his friend's mysterious death in a Brazilian rainforest, he decides that with the parrot's help he will use these books to teach Max and his brother and sister the mysteries of Euclid's Elements, Pythagoras's Theorem and the countless other mathematical wonders. But soon it becomes clear that Mr. Ruche has inherited the library for reasons other than enlightenment, and before he knows it the household is racing to prevent the parrot and vital, new theorems from falling into the wrong hands. An immediate bestseller when first published in France, The Parrot's Theorem charmingly combines a straightforward history of mathematics and a first-rate murder mystery.
Download or read book The Number written by Jonny Steinberg and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 9 June 2003, a 43-year-old coloured man named Magadien Wentzel walked out of Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. Behind him lay a lifelong career in the 28s, South Africa's oldest and most reviled prison gang, for decades rumoured to have specialised in rape and robbery. In front of him lay the prospect of a law-abiding future, and life in a household of eight adults and six children, none of whom earned a living. Jonny Steinberg met Wentzel in prison in the dying months of 2002. By the time Wentzel was released, he and Steinberg had spent more than 50 hours discussing his life experiences. The Number is an account of their conversations and of Steinberg's journeys to the places and people of Wentzel's past. Wentzel had lived a bewilderingly schizophrenic life, wandering to and fro between three worlds: the arcane universe of prison gangs, steeped in a mythology of banditry and retribution, where he was known as JR; the fringes of South Africa's criminal economy, where he lived by a string of stolen names and learned the arts of commercial fraud; and his scattered family which eked out a living int the coloured ghettos of the Cape flats. The Number visits each of those worlds in turn. It is a tale of modern South Africa's historic events seen through the eyes of the country's underclass. Surprisingly, perhaps, it is neither a story of passivity nor despair, but of beguiling ingenuity and cool cynicism. Most of all, the book is an account of memory and identity, of Wentzel's project to make some sense of his bewildering past and something worthy of his future. When Steinberg met him, Wentzel was embarking on a quest to retrieve the name he had been given at birth. He was also beginning the daunting task of gathering together the estranged children he had sired into a nuclear family. It was an eccentric and painful venture for a man with his past, but it has led him to construct an account of himself that begs to be told.
Download or read book Revelation written by and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Download or read book MAN WHOSE NUMBER IS 666 written by Cordell Mitchell and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Mohammed, the founder of the Islam faith, and the spirit of Islam is shown to be the man the Scriptures refers to as "The Man Whose Number is 666." This is not the first book to state this but it may well be the only one in this modern era to show from a historical perspective and the modern resurgence of the Islam faith which has united with world-wide terrorism to fulfill the Biblical picture of this man. I will leave it to the reader to decide to what degree I have succeeded. You will not put this book down until you have decided whether Mohammed truly completes the picture of this man whose number is 666.
Download or read book Number Nuggets in the King James Holy Bible written by Kevin Mann and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number SIX is the number for 'Man', In Genesis chapter 6 the word "man" appears six times; the sixth book of the bible is the name of a man; Joshua: (6 letters) with 24 chapters (a multiple of six), the word "Joshua" is the same word "Jesus" in the N.T. oddly enough the sixth book of the N.T. is Romans (6 letters) and in Romans 6:6 the sixth word is "man", just a coincidence? I trow not! The word mankind appears 6x in the bible; 3 in OT, 3in NT.The 18th (3x6) use of the word "man" in the book of Romans is found in Romans 6:6. The word "man" is the sixth word in the verse in Romans exactly 6 times; Romans 2:1; 2:3; 2:6; 3:28; 5:7; 6:6; The number of the Antichrist found in Revelation 13:18 (13+666) is Six Hundred threescore and six or (666). This is the super villainous man at his most corrupt state who we see fighting against the very one who created him. If you add the numbers together from 1 to 36 (6x6); (1+2+3+4... etc.) the total will equal to the number of the Antichrist; 666.The number 6 (man) is joined at the hip with the number 13 which is associated with "rebellion, sin, wicked-ness, evil and the such like" (see 13:13 and comments). In Genesis 1:26 the words "US and OUR" define the makeup of God as a trinity, we know him as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost it is not 1+1+1=3 BUT it is 1x1x1=1. Man is also a triune being made after the image of God we have a body, soul and spirit, see 1st Thessalonians 5:23.The word "Adam", the first man, appears 6 times (number of man) in chapter 2, and a total of 18 (3x6) times in the entire book of Genesis. The word "man" appears 12 times (2x6) in chapter 2.The gestation period to bear a child is 9 months, that is 36 (6x6) weeks up to 42 (6x7) weeks a total of 270 (6x45) days or 294 (6x49) days.The word "mankind" appears 6 times in the scripture.Genesis 2:9 This is the first use of the word 'evil' in scripture, it appears 18 (3x6) x in Gen. The word 'evil' appears 613 times in the bible, 6 is the number of 'man', 13 is the number for 'rebellion'. The Rabbis claim that there are 613 laws in the Torah, that is fitting seeing that 6 is the number for fallen man, and 13 is the number of 'rebellion'. 613 is the 112th prime number. 112/6=18.66666666666667.All words with evil in the word: evil, evildoer, evildoers, evilfavourdness, and evils appears 637 time in the bible. 637 is 7 x 7 x 13Genesis 2:19, the first use of the name "Adam" (his name means "red, human, and man") it appears 18 (3x6 - six is the number of man) times in Genesis and a total of 6 times in chapter 2. The name 'Adam' appears 30 (5x6, death times man) times total in the bible.Genesis 2:23, The sixth (number for man) mention of the name Adam is here presented with his new bride whom he calls "Woman" literally mankind with a womb; because she was taken out of the capital "M" Man. In Eph 5:30 we are bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. At the 6th mention of Adam we also have "wom-an, her, she and Man" this makes up all of mankind and these two can reproduce all of the other mankind in the world. Not two men and not two women but a man and a woman and they are the only entities that can reproduce another complete human being. The sons of God who left their first estate (Jude verse "6") and cohabited with women in Gen. "6" created a race of beings that were genetic mutants, giants who were both human and spirit probably born without a soul (just speculation on my part).
Download or read book Angel Numbers written by Doreen Virtue and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why do I always see the numbers 444 (or 111, 333, etc.) everywhere I go?" is one of the most frequently asked questions that Doreen Virtue receives at her worldwide workshops. In her best-selling book Healing with the Angels, Doreen included a chapter that briefly explained the meanings behind these number sequences, and many people have commented that they carry the book with them everywhere to help them interpret the numbers they see daily. By popular request from Doreen’s audience members, Angel Numbers has been created to serve as a pocket guide containing the angelic meanings of numbers from 0 to 999. Designed to fit into a purse or pocket for easy transport, Angel Numbers provides an interpretation of more complex number sequences than was previously available in Healing with the Angels. This new book focuses on numbers such as 123, 337, 885, and so on. Whether you’re seeing these numbers on license plates, telephone numbers, the clock, or other locations, they’re very real messages from the angels. Angel Numbers will help you instantly understand the meaning of these signs!
Download or read book Numbers and the Making of Us written by Caleb Everett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating book.” —James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review A Smithsonian Best Science Book of the Year Winner of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Language & Linguistics Carved into our past and woven into our present, numbers shape our perceptions of the world far more than we think. In this sweeping account of how the invention of numbers sparked a revolution in human thought and culture, Caleb Everett draws on new discoveries in psychology, anthropology, and linguistics to reveal the many things made possible by numbers, from the concept of time to writing, agriculture, and commerce. Numbers are a tool, like the wheel, developed and refined over millennia. They allow us to grasp quantities precisely, but recent research confirms that they are not innate—and without numbers, we could not fully grasp quantities greater than three. Everett considers the number systems that have developed in different societies as he shares insights from his fascinating work with indigenous Amazonians. “This is bold, heady stuff... The breadth of research Everett covers is impressive, and allows him to develop a narrative that is both global and compelling... Numbers is eye-opening, even eye-popping.” —New Scientist “A powerful and convincing case for Everett’s main thesis: that numbers are neither natural nor innate to humans.” —Wall Street Journal
Download or read book Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky written by Maurice Nicoll and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Maurice Nicholl was studying in Zurich, he met Jung, and Ouspensky. He went on to study with Gurdjieff, and from 1931 to his death in 1953, he began at Ouspensky's request, a programme of work devoted to passing on the ideas he had received. Reissued in hard cover, these five unedited commentaries are taken from the weekly lectures and talks Nicoll gave to his students in England and which were recorded verbatim; the sixth volume is an index produced by the Gurdjieff society Washington DC. These differ from Nicholl's more polished works - they are more concerned with directly applying certain deep ideas to daily life.
Download or read book Fibonacci s Liber Abaci written by Laurence Sigler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1202, Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci was one of the most important books on mathematics in the Middle Ages, introducing Arabic numerals and methods throughout Europe. This is the first translation into a modern European language, of interest not only to historians of science but also to all mathematicians and mathematics teachers interested in the origins of their methods.
Download or read book International Code of Signals American Edition written by United States. Hydrographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Know Your Chances written by Steven Woloshin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding risk -- Putting risk in perspective -- Risk charts : a way to get perspective -- Judging the benefit of a health intervention -- Not all benefits are equal : understand the outcome -- Consider the downsides -- Do the benefits outweight the downsides? -- Beware of exaggerated importance -- Beware of exaggerated certainty -- Who's behind the numbers?
Download or read book The Congregationalist and Christian World written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Top Five Regrets of the Dying written by Bronnie Ware and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.
Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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