Recreation with Numbers and Figures

This book is a collection of several stories, sequences, problems, numbers and figures which can capture the imagination of the common reader. It has been written to recreate with no injections of great heavy stuff and knowledge. Most of the mothers had a tough time explaining to their child that 11 is eleven and not oneteen and 12 is twelve and not twoteen. The early learner would have often wondered why of all bases this strange number 2.718… was chosen as natural logarithm base called, e. Why is Mathematics left out of the Nobel Prize by the Academy? Did you know that only a few folds to a paper could take you to the moon? Binary system is okay but why the computer uses such a strange notation as AD45F3? All this and many more interesting stories will be found in the book. It is not for serious mathematicians, not for people who know too much and find the book no more than a carbon copy of their own reproductions. The book should be read with a rough page and pencil, that’s the only way to enjoy it.