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Author Enzensberger, Hans Magnus.

Title The number devil : a mathematical adventure / Hans Magnus Enzensberger ; illustrated by Rotraut Susanne Berner ; translated by Michael Henry Heim
Published London : Granta, 2000

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Description 262 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Twelve-year-old Robert hates his maths teacher. He sets his class boring problems and won't let them use their calculators. Then in his dreams Robert meets the Number Devil, who brings the subject magically to life, illustrating with wit and charm a world in which numbers can fascinate and amaze, where maths is nothing like the dreary, difficult process that so many of us dread. The Number Devil knows how to make maths devishly simple. A charming numerical fairytale for children
Summary Twelve-year-old Robert hates his maths teacher. He sets his class boring problems and won't let them use their calculators. Then in his dreams Robert meets the Number Devil, who brings the subject magically to life, illustrating with wit and charm a world in which numbers can fascinate and amaze, where maths is nothing like the dreary, difficulty process that so many of us dread. The Number Devil knows how to make maths devilishly simple.̀
Analysis Mathematics Fiction
Mathematik ; SWD-ID: 40379449
Notes This translation originally published: New York : Metropolitan, 1998
Translated from the German
Subject Mathematics -- Problems, exercises, etc. -- Juvenile fiction.
Mathematics -- Miscellanea.
Numbers, Natural -- Juvenile fiction.
Dreams -- Juvenile fiction.
Mathematics -- Juvenile fiction.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Juvenile fiction.
Mathematical recreations -- Juvenile fiction.
Mathematics -- Juvenile literature.
Genre/Form Mathematical fiction.
Fiction.
Fiction.
Author Berner, Rotraut Susanne.
ISBN 1862073910 paperback
Other Titles Zahlenteufel. English