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"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance."
- John Keats
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ZIN Product Number: 10285583
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 264 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated
ISBN: 0805062998
Release Date: Jan 8, 1995
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 3 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
In twelve dreams, a twelve-year-old boy who hates math discovers the amazing world of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, numbers that magically appear in triangles, and numbers that expand without end. As readers dream with him, they are taken further and further into mathematical theory, until everyone, from those who fumble over fractions to those who solve complex equations in their heads, winds up marveling at what numbers can do.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger is one of those amazing thinkers who can write for the most advanced intellectuals and yet has the wit, charm, and sparkle to speak directly to children. In The Number Devil he brings together the surreal logic of "Alice in Wonderland" with the kind of math all readers would love, if only they had a number devil to teach it to them.
| | | | From The Publisher
Finally available in paperback, the international best-seller that makes math a thrilling adventure for adults and children alike.
In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, numbers that magically appear in triangles, and numbers that expand without end. As we dream with him, we are taken further and further into mathematical theory, where ideas eventually take flight, until everyone-from those who fumble over fractions to those who solve complex equations in their heads-winds up marveling at what numbers can do.
| | | | Annotation
Annoyed with his math teacher who assigns word problems and won't let him use a calculator, twelve-year-old Robert finds help from the number devil in his dreams.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 3 Average Rating:
A good book!
-- A reviewer, July 20, 2000
An Interesting and Fun Book
-- Jonathan Egen, a college student majoring in math, February 27, 2001
Amusing introduction to mathematical concepts
-- Theresa, the mother of a 12 year old, March 8, 2001
Also Recommended: Sideways Arithmetic from the Wayside School by Louis Sachar, Math Curse by John Sieska, and Anno's Counting Jar (and other math game books) by Anno
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
German writer Enzensberger's highly unorthodox explanation of mathematics joins the supposedly rational world of numbers with the fantastic world of the subconscious. The reader dreams 12 dreams (of infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, and numbers without end) along with a boy who detests math and in the process learns to lose his fear of the ferocious Number Devil.
| |  | | | Accreditation
Hans Magnus Enzensberger is the author of many pathbreaking books, including Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia, which the New York Times praised for its "striking insights" and The Nation called "brilliant." He has been a professor, author, critic, and prizewinning poet. He lives in Munich. Michael Henry Heim is an award-winning translator, who teaches in the Slavic Languages and Literature Department at UCLA. Rotraut Susanne Berner is an illustrator and author, who lives in Heidelberg, Germany.
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| | | | | | Keywords
Children: Grades 4-6, Concepts - General, Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General, Juvenile Fiction, Science & Technology - Mathematics, Fiction, Mathematics, Dreams, Numbers, Natural
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