by Malba Tahan · RBA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498676907
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«El hombre que calculaba» is the oriental tale by Malba Tahan, published by RBA in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
In thirteenth-century Baghdad, the shepherd Beremiz Samir counts everything he sees and ends up becoming a prodigious calculator. Salim, a man impressed by Beremiz's talent, presents Beremiz to a sheikh. Later, Beremiz solves problems before poets, astronomers, and scholars, and discovers in numbers a source of wisdom and happiness.
The book belongs to the «Divulgación» collection (no. 352) from RBA Libros. Translation by Francisco Martín Arribas.
A read for young people and adults interested in mathematics, science, and stories with an Oriental setting.
Júlio César de Mello e Souza, was a Brazilian writer and mathematics teacher. He was well known in Brazil and abroad for his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen name of Malba Tahan, a fictitious Persian scholar.
