Pub Date: May 1, 2000
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 97042448
Lexile Code: 0580
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 10 to 13
Physical Info: 0.60" H x 9.25" L x 6.25" W ( 0.90 lbs) 264 pages
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Description: In 12 dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, encounters a sly, clever number devil who introduces him to the wonders of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, and numbers that expand without end.
Brief description: Hans Magnus Enzensberger is the author of many highly lauded books, including Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia and The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure. He lives in Munich.
Review Quotes:
"Rare and glorious." --Michael Pakenham, Baltimore Sun
"Entertaining, amusingly illustrated . . . Adults who know a little about math will find this book as enlightening as younger readers will." --Martin Gardner, Los Angeles Times "Charming and seductive . . . We all might learn more if we each had an Enzensbergian devil to beguile us into a dream and to give us a glimpse of the beauty and power of mathematics." --John Allen Paulos, The New York Review of Books "Interesting and fun at the same time." --The Guardian "Exceptionally handsome four-color illustrations and vignettes deepen the magic of this mathematically minded fantasy. . . . Even mathematical equations look festive here, hand-printed in warm muted tones. . . . This will be a favorite." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)