{"product_id":"huge-numbers-a-story-of-counting-ambitiously-from-4-1-2-to-fish-7-hardcover","title":"Huge Numbers: A Story of Counting Ambitiously, from 4 1\/2 to Fish 7 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Elwes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow humanity's long pursuit of ever-larger numbers broke the boundaries of mathematics and propelled us into the Information Age \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A charming tour\"--Jordan Ellenburg, author of \u003ci\u003eShape\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What if, every time you wanted to write down 1,000,000, you had to draw a picture of a god? And what if that number were the biggest you had a symbol for? If you were doing math in ancient Egypt, those were the rules: anything bigger broke math. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As mathematician Richard Elwes shows in \u003ci\u003eHuge Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e, this is the strange story of math. Even today, writing down some numbers is beyond us: try it with all the zeroes in a googolplex, or an outrageous alien number like TREE(3). Safer not to try: even harnessing every particle in the universe, you wouldn't come close. But this book is no mere bestiary of numerical monsters. It shows how, by hunting down and studying ever-bigger numbers, arithmetic has reshaped human thought and made our modern era of science and computation possible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Where many math books celebrate abstract algebra or ineffable infinities, \u003ci\u003eHuge Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e is both more practical and far weirder. It reveals a world where most numbers remain out of reach until we discover how to chase them down and tame them, and so remake our world again. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Okura Elwes \u003c\/b\u003eis an associate professor at University of Leeds, and a Holgate Session Leader for the London Mathematical Society. He lives in Leeds, UK. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45585085333548,"sku":"9781541605923","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/PrlPkUGuIY9781541605923.webp?v=1780271419","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/huge-numbers-a-story-of-counting-ambitiously-from-4-1-2-to-fish-7-hardcover","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}