Richard Elwes1d ago

First media review for Huge Numbers!

Emily Conover in Science News writes: "It’s a delightful survey of the field of googology, the study of large numbers.... It’s a joy to marvel at how boundaries have been broken time and again, thanks to the creative, intrepid explorers of the biggest numbers known."

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/huge-numbers-book-math-googology

Huge Numbers tackles mathematics at its most incomprehensibly large

Mathematician Richard Elwes surveys googology, the study of enormous numbers, in a new book.

Science News
Show threadDougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)
@richardelwes
Congratulations on your book; obviously that was a lot of work, and it seems to be well-received so far.
Apr 4 at 3:36pmWeb
Show threadRichard Elwes1d ago
@dougmerritt Thank you for the kind words! It was a ton of work, but very pleasurable work to my taste!