How long does it take to read Realm of Numbers?
Realm of Numbers by Isaac Asimov takes about 3 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 18 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1959. 180 pages, about 49,500 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The most important tool of science is mathematics. This clear and readable book shows even the non-mathematical reader how to use this tool with understanding. Starting with the most basic sort of finger counting, Isaac Asimov proceeds to the pleasures of the abacus, where numbers take physical shapes, and on to the ideas of zero, fractions, and the decimal system. He makes sense of logarithms and even of imaginary numbers, and ends at the very frontiers of mathematics with a discussion of infinity and the concept of an infinity of infinities! The mathematics which Professor Asimov presents is not the thorny wasteland many struggling students suppose it to be. His main concern is not the mathematical techniques one learns in textbooks, but the various wherefores behind them.
Subjects: Number concept, Number theory, Numeration, Number systems, Mathematics, Math
